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.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.