Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway..

I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved..

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies..

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 complet….

I am just an old-fashioned girl..

More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause..

I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive..

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great..

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

No one will ever feel sorry for me..

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit..

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments..

It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around..

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was onl….

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable prof….

The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and leav….

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing af….

I've had an exciting time; I married for love and got a little money along with it..

it is not tears but determination that makes pain bearable..

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece..