Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

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

All of life is a constant education.

If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.

I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

We have more than we use.

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant’s truce between virtue and vice.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.