Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

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.

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

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

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

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

It is a severe Rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many Allowances, and we make so few to our Neighbor: As if Charity had nothing to do with Religion; Or Love with Faith, that ought to work by it.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

I hate women because they always know where things are.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Poverty consist in feeling poor.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.