Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.