"All of life is the exercise of risk."

“...be more guided by hope than fear.”

“I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.”

“It's right around this time that her Grandmother Hall dies. And Eleanor Roosevelt is responsible for making all the funeral arrangements. And there are a couple of things that she really understands, as she contemplates her grandmother's life and makes the funeral arrangements. One, she's really talented, an organizational woman. She knows how to do things. She begins to compare her life to her grandmother's life. And it's very clear to her that being a devoted wife and a devoted mother is not enough.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group

“Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.”

“I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.”

Source : Interview with Randy Shulman, www.metroweekly.com. June 7, 2006.

“It is much easier to make measurements than to know exactly what you are measuring”

“The power that a president has in France is like the power of a king. In America, you know that his power is limited. Maybe because there used to be a king for centuries and now they're still behaving like they need a king.”