Beautiful young people are accidents of nature. But beautiful old people are works of art.

More from Eleanor Roosevelt

• Do one thing every day that scares you.
• Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
• No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Accept loss forever
• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.