This is a strange, little, complacent country [Switzerland], in many ways a USA in miniature but of course nearer the center of disturbance!
Eleanor RooseveltI wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.
Eleanor RooseveltThe only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.
Eleanor RooseveltGreat minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor RooseveltI often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.
Eleanor RooseveltA mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
Eleanor Roosevelt