Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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

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

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father’s care.

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.

A man is related to all nature.

It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe… the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold stove lid, either.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.