It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.
More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved.
It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around.
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.
When you hold your baby in your arms the first time, and you think of all the things you can say and do to influence him, it's a tremendous responsibility. What you do with him can influence not only him, but everyone he meets and not for a day or a month or a year but for time and eternity.
What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?
I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it.
Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively.
Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.
It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please.
