“All the men I know add that hands that prepared it line. They must know its right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.”

“The choice was whether to be sad and foolish or sad and reasonable.”

“Old age breeds the miracle of recall. You have no short-term memory atall; you cant remember what you did minutes ago, but you can recall with exquisite clarity what you did on your fifth birthday ...”

“Neva ought to smile more. It breaks her anxiety into tiny pieces of joy you want to gather up and hand back to her in your palms, as if to say, See what you can make when you loose the reins.”

“Im serious, now let me know every time you see her cry. The thought brings me great joy. Hope.”

“I was that kind of tired you feel when youve spent a day in a hospital while a loved one undergoes surgery and comes through all right, the loved one, of course, being myself, and Christmas being t...”

“No matter what gifts you have, practice is the only way to get better at anything."If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery it would not seem so wonderful at all - Michael Angelo”

“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle”

“Time is a precious gift.”

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”

“We limit ourselves and God who wants to work through us”

“God can only work through those who have totally identified themselves with His will and purpose”

“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”

“While our country remains untainted with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and imp...”

“Wealth of good manners is what no one can steal from you. You can keep it with you wherever you go.”