Eleanor Roosevelt

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

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.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.

Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

You who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities and think long and hard on what your powers are equal to and what they are unable to perform.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.