Eleanor Roosevelt

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me 'understand' something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

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

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

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

The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

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

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

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I once 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.

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

The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions

...without equality there can be no democracy.