Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.