Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

In a mad world, only the mad are sane.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Whatever it is, people who have more spare time than people ever had before get the sense of whirlwind pressure,and repeat the common criticism that ‘we are going too fast.’ Yet the people live longer than ever before, live with less effort, live on a higher plane. Is it possible that this common saying about our rapid pace is just another thoughtless mob suggestion?

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

It’s just a matter of managing expectations. So for me, for example, you know, when your husband is President of the United States and you have children, something has got to give. I’ve made compromises in my life and my career, but I’ve also, in exchange, gained a wonderful platform to do some great work.

Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.

The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.