Eleanor Roosevelt

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

"Do one thing every day that scares you."