Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

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.

Women are like tea bags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

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.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Don’t try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

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

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

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’ve also learned that a real mouth-smile always has an eye-smile to go with it. So watch out, I say, when someone smiles at you but his eyes stay the same. It’s sure to be a phony.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

Nothing does Reason more Right, than the Coolness of those that offer it: for Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.