Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.