Eleanor Roosevelt

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.

I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Lest I keep my complacent way I must remember somewhere out there a person died for me today. As long as there must be war, I ask and I must answer was I worth dying for?

If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained.

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

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don’t choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Man minus the Machine is a slave; Man plus the Machine is a freeman.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

People have the right to think and say whatever they want to. But you have the right not to take it to heart, and not to react.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

We do not know who we are until we see what we can do.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There’s just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent’s voice to resonate in the children’s ears.