Money doesn't give you any license to relax. It gives you an opportunity to use all your abilities, free of financial worries, to go forward, and to use your superior advantages and talents to help others.

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable.

When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

What greater aspiration and challenge are there for a mother than the hope of raising a great son or daughter?