Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

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