My best teachers were mess, failure, death, mistakes, and the people I hated, including myself.
Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.
Our good works are like stones cast into the pool of time; though the stones themselves may disappear, their ripples extend to eternity.
It's actually kind of nice to have a 'patchwork family. '
Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday hats, but something that comes to you as if you were born to the king and queen. Aunt Loretta understands better than Grandma that reading a big book is more classy than wearing fake pearls watching TV.
Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.
Bigger women have more fat to live on. They can put out more effort.
In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.
Rescue someone unwilling to look after himself, and he will cling to you like a dangerous illness.
Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast.
Writing is not a serious business. It’s a joy and a celebration. You should be having fun with it.