Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world.

Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

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.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

The most dangerous people are those who have passion but lack wisdom.

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Read your own compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.

Give, even if you only have little.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.