Eleanor Roosevelt

"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."

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

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

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

"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."