Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

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.

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.

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public ear, whether they do not sometimes play too wantonly with our passions.

Nature has always had more force than education.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.