Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Be confident, not certain

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

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

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.

I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.