Eleanor Roosevelt

Courage is exhilarating.

To be mature you have to realize what you value most… Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one’s own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

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.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

To inherit property is not to be born – it is to be still-born, rather.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

For every why he had a wherefore.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

We’re comic. We’re all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

What is once well done is done forever.