Eleanor Roosevelt

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it’s an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You never know anyone until you marry them.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

Eleanor Roosevelt