All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.