Eleanor Roosevelt

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Understanding is a two-way street.

All of life is a constant education.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Do you know that the tendrils of graft and corruption have become mighty interlacing roots so that even men who would like to be honest are tripped and trapped by them?

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

I’ve learned that from my husband, that sort of, you know, ability to not get too high or too low with changes and bumps in the road.

When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.