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.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
A poem is no place for an idea.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.