I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week, which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

Study the lives of our great women who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice. I desire that you should take up the reins of leadership and bring peace and prosperity to the nation by leading ideal lives.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment a household of children if things go reasonably well certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Utility is the great idol of the age to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

The easiest way to control sensuous desires is to practice altruistic love.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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