Pregled posta

The most important thing

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.