Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. – Eleanor Roosevelt
I think, at a childs birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. – Eleanor Roosevelt
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt
You can never really live anyone elses life, not even your childs. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what youve become yourself. – Eleanor Roosevelt
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French b