Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every moment is a fresh beginning and here is the only place you can spend the moments of your life."

"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

"The money you refuse will never benefit you in life."

"Tend to the health of your mind as carefully as you would tend to the health of your body."

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

"Life must be lived and suffering must be borne. In this alone is there justness and meaning."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"I believe that every single person, if they work hard enough and want it badly enough, can accomplish their goals."

"The most important thing is to understand that we are here to serve."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"Beauty is not based on skin deep but on the radiance from a compassionate soul."

"Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people."

"The human spirit can accomplish almost anything if it is determined and free."

"Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for an idea you believe in but respect enough to listen to other ideas."

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will hurt your enemy."

"The most challenging time to love is when someone is least lovely."

"You create reality with your thoughts; therefore, focus on what is possible, not what is impossible."

"Affection between people grows through shared thought, experience, and interest."

"It seems important to remember that those we admire had to work hard and had doubts too."

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."

"There is no greater satisfaction than the knowledge that you have used your ability to do some good in the world."

"The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you ask yourself."

"We need to make sure that as technology changes, we don't lose the human touch."

"Justice is not something that happens only in court; it must be lived every day."

"Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses."

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home."

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

"History, as much as it may be a record of the past, is also a guide for the future."

"The only thing that we have to fear on this earth is the power of the corporate interest."