Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Leap, and the net will appear.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.