I have a great objection to seeing anyone, particularly anyone whom I care about, lose his self-control.
Eleanor RooseveltYou [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.
Eleanor RooseveltYou need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!
Eleanor RooseveltFranklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never ending persistence.
Eleanor Roosevelt