Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor RooseveltYou 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.
Eleanor RooseveltWhere, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
Eleanor Roosevelt