Eleanor Roosevelt

It’s your life-but only if you make it so.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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

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.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day.

Fame is proof that the people are gullible.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

Better is the enemy of good.

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Standing beneath this immense, bejeweled, star-spangled dome, breathing in its life, boundaries fall away, possibilities open up and my wings unfold. And I thought that you were the one who was the angel.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Don’t forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he wanted. He lived happily ever after.

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.