Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

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

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.

Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

The money men make lives after them.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

For every why he had a wherefore.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct – nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.