Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

History is more or less bunk.

The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

If you keep your head in the sand, you don’t know where the kick’s coming from.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

I feel like I got a pile of cattle chasing my ass, and I’m pedaling as hard as I can to stay in front of ‘em. I’m looking behind me driving like hell.