The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never complain and never explain.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.