If you're going through hell, keep going.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Never complain and never explain.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Leap, and the net will appear.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.