One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in… - Eleanor Roosevelt

"Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

There are two kinds of snobbishness: One is that of the man who has had a good many opportunities and looks down on those who lack them. The other is rarely understood, that of the self-made man who glories in his success in overcoming difficulties and admires greatly people who have achieved the things he considers of importance.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.