Eleanor Roosevelt

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

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

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Nothing endures but change.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

It is the mind that makes good or ill. That which makes us happy or sad; rich or poor.

I’m slipping. I’m made of departed dreams and a stubborn fog that feels nothing like a veil.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

Sometimes I think someone upstairs saved me from being ordinary.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.