You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.