Eleanor Roosevelt

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

Don’t call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it’s not sexist.

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.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: – I wasn’t worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.

I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

The pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.