Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

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.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

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

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Blows are sarcasm’s turned stupid.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Men being born with a title to perfect freedom and uncontrolled enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature . . . no one can be put out of his estate and subjected to the political view of another, without his consent.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

There is no thought in any mind, but it quickly tends to convert itself into power.