I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

Parents die, daughters grow up and marry out, but sisters are for life.