We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

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.

I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.

Anger is one letter short of danger.

I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations.