"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"The greatest value of life is not what you get. The greatest value of life is what you become."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of the longest, most arduous, and most significant battles for human rights."

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

"If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world."