Eleanor Roosevelt

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

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.

Be confident, not certain

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

There are no have-to’s, just choices.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

The endearing elegance of female friendship.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Depriving the oppressed of a beacon of hope could lose us the world we have built and thrived in. It could cost our reputation in history as the nation distinct from all others in our achievements, our identity, and our enduring influence on mankind. Our values are central to all three.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

You are perfect. An exquisitely fine work of art, labor of love, suspended in silence. Bejeweled, trembling, kissed by a breeze, mesmerized by your beauty. You await in silence, beckoning me to a silken-wrapped slumber.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don’t labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.