Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

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

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Sorrow makes us children again.

Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.

Any experience of reality is indescribable!

The only reward of virtue is virtue the only way to have a friend is to be one.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

When setting out on a journey, do not seek advice from those who have never left home.