Eleanor Roosevelt

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

The virtue in most request is conformity.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one’s ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they’ve made, and that’s OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don’t make them over and over again, you’re on the right path.

They teach the morals of a whore, and the manners of a dancing master.

Tread softly, Breathe peacefully, Laugh hysterically.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

Remember, when life’s path is steep, to keep your mind even.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Seek not to be Rich, but Happy. The one lies in Bags, the other in Content: which Wealth can never give.