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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.