Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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

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

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

We falsely attribute to men a determined character, putting together all their yesterdays and averaging them, we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support, it is worse than a large family, he is the silent poor indeed.

The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

As Love ought to bring them together, so it is the best Way to keep them well together.

They change their climate, not their soul, who rush across the sea.

The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers.

He who praises every body, praises nobody.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

How real is any of the past, being every moment revalued to make the present possible.