Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Be confident, not certain

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

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn’t need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder – in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Some will always be above others. Destroy the inequality today, and it will appear again tomorrow.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.