Eleanor Roosevelt

"Music is the shorthand of emotion and connects us across all boundaries and languages."

"Life does not require that we be the best at everything, only that we try our best at everything we do."

"A truly free society is one where the concerns of all people are heard and valued."

"The death of a person is truly a thing of sorrow, but to live unlived is perhaps a greater tragedy."

"Literature provides the landscape where we can see ourselves and understand others more deeply."

"Every human being has an inherent right to dignity and respect, regardless of circumstance."

"Courage is action in spite of fear and doubt, not the absence of fear and doubt."

"The greatest wealth is not measured in dollars but in the richness of our relationships and experiences."

"Patience is the art of accepting the good with the bad, and finding peace in both."

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

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be."

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

"The future is literally in our hands to shape."

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier."

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face."

"Remember always that the composer, the poet, the sculptor, these are the makers of the civilization of the age."

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

"If you lose money you lose much; if you lose friends you lose more; if you lose faith you lose all."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart."

"The greatest thing we can do is serve one another with our lives."

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift."

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity."

"Friendship with oneself is all important, because if one is not at peace with oneself, one cannot be at peace with others."

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

"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."