“I think, at a child’s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure.

Be confident, not certain

A great deal of fear is a result of just not knowing.

We do not have to become heroes overnight.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.

Success in marriage depends on being able, when you get over being in love, to really love.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face

What you don’t do can be a destructive force.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

There is nothing to fear except fear it’s self.