Eleanor Roosevelt

"Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice."

"A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

"Actors are one family over the entire world."

"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."

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

"Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."

"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."

"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."

"Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both."

"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths."

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes."

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built."

"Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality."

"Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

"The giving of love is an education in itself."

"The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation."

"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."

"When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor."

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"

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