HAPPINESS is not a goal, it is a by-product. - Eleanor Roosevelt

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.

I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.