Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else… you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Energy doesn’t lie so trust those vibes you’re getting.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Get a black suit and just freeload, problem it’s too God damned late now even to be any of the things I never wanted to be.

To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

They have a right to censure that have a heart to help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

A good scare is worth more than good advice.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

It is nobler to be good, and it is nobler to teach others to be good – and less trouble!

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

What is once well done is done forever.