Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life. ”

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

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! ”

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. ”

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

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. ”

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. ”

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. ”

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself. ”