Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person’s stature is as large as one’s own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Understanding is a two-way street.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

The rain comes and what bends will rise. It is a purposeful journey.

At the end of the day, life is about being happy being who you are.

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.