Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

"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."