Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.”

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

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

“Actors are one family over the entire world.”

“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.”

“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”

“The mother of a family should look upon her housekeeping and the planning of meals as a scientific occupation.”

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