Eleanor Roosevelt

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

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed receipt.

The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can’t get away from them.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity does best discover vice, but adversity does best discover virtue.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.