Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

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

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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.

Be confident, not certain

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

A man’s library is a sort of harem.

All his life has he looked away… to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s house is in flames.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.