You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.