Eleanor Roosevelt

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.