Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth.