Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, "My mother was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen. " And I think her life was a constant and continual and lifelong contrast with her mother.
Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Children are the anchors of a mother's life.
To negotiate is not to do as one likes.
A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end.
I feel like I am more deserving than last year. It definitely feels good just to be on the team.
If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand. . . then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about.