Eleanor Roosevelt

I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.

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

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

I constantly ask myself if what I’m doing is for me or somebody else. It’s tripping me out!

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race – the individual’s distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety’s or comfort’s sake, to stand well in his neighbor’s eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.