Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good – and less trouble!

Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass, they see face to face; and their converse is free as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.