"The basis of all good human behavior..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

“There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.”

“Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.”

“Organize first for knowledge, first with the object of making us know ourselves as a nation, for we have to do that before we canbe of value to other nations of the world and then organize to accomplish the things that you decide to want. Anddon't make decisions with the interest of youth alone before you. Make your decisions because they are good for the nation as a whole.”

“For a day, just for one day, talk about that which disturbs no one and bring some peace into those beautiful eyes.”

“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”

“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”

“Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treelesswaste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.”

“As you interact with others, remember this: anytime a person's response is larger than the issue at hand, the response is almost always about something else.”

“We are constituted a good deal like chickens, which, taken from the hen, and put in a basket of cotton in the chimney-corner, willoften peep till they die, nevertheless; but if you put in a book, or anything heavy, which will press down the cotton, and feel like the hen, they go to sleep directly.”