... every experience in life enriches one's background and should teach valuable lessons.

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and moral conduct.

The higher one climbs, the lonelier one is.

Until the sky is the limit [for women], as it is for men, men as well as women will suffer, because all society is affected when half of it is denied equal opportunity for full development.

The intelligent employer encourages challenge, questioning--not blind acceptance and "our Leader knows best" acclaim.

... a worker was seldom so much annoyed by what he got as by what he got in relation to his fellow workers.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

Men's minds must be free, and that means the minds of all, not the minds of a select few.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can't be done.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

time is the most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable.

My life closed twice before its close

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

Your political system is actually too democratic. The fact that Americans vote on every bill and proposition can prolong bigotry indefinitely, especially where it is aimed at minority groups.

At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance.

The reaction of weak management to weak operations is often weak accounting.