Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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 should be curiosity.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die, and the choices that we make are ultimately our responsibility.

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more, He who loses faith, loses all.

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.

When you cease to make a contribution; you begin to die.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Remember to lean back in the parade so everybody can see the president. Be sure not to get too fat, because you'll have to sit three in the back.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.