“The first and great commandment is: Don’t let them scare you.”

“There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.”

“Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.”

“If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice.”

“Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.”

“It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.”

“Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.”

“The older I get, the more I feel / almost beautiful…”

“No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.”

“It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly… ‘I trust you; do what you must,’ life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.”