Great Throughts Treasury

"Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self."

"Influence comes out of the work that you’ve done and the things you’ve stood for. Influence and power shouldn’t be given to just anybody who wants them."

"I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice."

"There is hardly a facet of life that is now free of some sort of federal action."

"The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting."

"The ideal attitude which should underlie all women's manners expresses kindness, gentleness, goodwill, sensitive understanding, self-respect and, when it is appropriate, deference."

"Mr. Chairman, I think we have heard something here today for which we are all going to be sorry and ashamed."

"You give bureaucrats power over others, and when the others are poor and helpless, nothing matches government. More than any single exploitive tyrannical force, the possibility of what government can do is absolutely terrifying."

"Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal."

"In my opinion it is a grave error for women to feel that they must move only in women's interests... . What, after all, would we think if men all got together and kept doing things that were supposed to be in the interest of men?"

"There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet."

"The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power."