Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the y… - Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

A consciousness of the fact that war means practically total destruction is the reason, I think, for the rising tide to prevent what seems such a senseless procedure. I understand that it is perhaps difficult for some people, whose lives have been lived with a sense of the need for military development, to envisage the possibility of being no longer needed. But the average citizen is beginning to think more and more of the need to develop machinery to settle difficulties in the world without destruction or the use of atomic bombs. (20 December 1961)

Good leaders inspire people to have confidence in their leader. Great leaders inspire people to have confidence in themselves.