More From Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday."
- "Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- "We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot."
More In Family
- "Protecting the institution of marriage safeguards, I believe, the American family."― John Boehner
- "It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family."― Christopher Lasch
- "The voters are going to decide in November who is going to fix their personal family dismay over not having jobs in America. They are going to pick Mitt Romney."― John Sununu