"My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths." ― Eleanor Roosevelt Topic(s): Best Tags: experience More From Eleanor Roosevelt "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’" "I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." "Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." More In Best "I’m either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life."― Katy Perry "Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."― John Ruskin "You got to have a courageous president to stand up and says, listen, if – if you send a bill to me that spends more money than what we’ve coming in, I’ll veto it. I mean, I’m going to try to work with you the best I can, but I’m going to veto it."― Rick Perry