Eleanor Roosevelt

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

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

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

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

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

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"

"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."

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

"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful."

"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water."

"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."