Eleanor Roosevelt

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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.

Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Be confident, not certain

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.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the notion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.

He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.

The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the dear deceit of beauty.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.