Eleanor Roosevelt

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do

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

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

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

Understanding is a two-way street.

It is very natural for young men to be vehement, acrimonious and severe. For as they seldom comprehend at once all the consequences of a position, or perceive the difficulties by which cooler and more experienced reasoners are restrained from confidence, they form their conclusions with great precipitance. Seeing nothing that can darken or embarrass the question, they expect to find their own opinion universally prevalent, and are inclined to impute uncertainty and hesitation to want of honesty, rather than of knowledge.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.

That which we do not believe, we cannot adequately say; even though we may repeat the words ever so often.

Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether there be any who understand it or not.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and when again under the influence of its kindred desires it is moved with violent motion towards the beauty of corporeal forms, it acquires a surname from this very violent motion, and is called love.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.