Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it!

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 should be curiosity.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

My husband plunged into work on a speech and I went off to work on an article. Midnight came and bed for all, and all that was said was "good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.'

To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times — The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.