Eleanor Roosevelt

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

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find how far one can go.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet.

We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we’re doing. We believe things about ourselves.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

They ask me how I love you and I say in pages, in novels, in volumes. I love you like my favorite story, the one that I wake up to every day and watch unfold. And I don’t know how it ends, but I know your name is already written in the chapters of my life that I have yet to live.

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

When I’m feeling anxious or depressed, I do find it helps to reach for a pen and paper. There is something about writing things down, that hand-eye combination, that makes me feel calmer.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I’m sleeping.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That’s a horrible existence for people.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Are people more violently opposed to fur rather than leather because its much easier to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs?