Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

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

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

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

Truth is a naked and open daylight.

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.

For every why he had a wherefore.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrate to some stroke of the imagination.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.