Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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.

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.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

To inherit property is not to be born – it is to be still-born, rather.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman’s arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

You’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

All colors will agree in the dark.

Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

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.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.