If someone offers you an amazing opportunity and you’re not sure you can do it, say yes – then learn how to do it later.
Instead of buying your children all the things you never had, you should teach them all the things you were never taught. Material wears out but knowledge stays.
If one is silent for too long, then the tongue withers
Throughout my life, the message and teachings of Christ have been my guide and in them I find hope. It is my heartfelt prayer that you will continue to be sustained by your faith in times of trial and encouraged by hope in times of despair.
I am a bourgeois, but I am not a Left-woman. I was born a bourgeois, and I have always tried not to stand on a pedestal and say that I am a worker. That would be false talk. Nor during the many years when the red hirelings were around and held their noses at the thought of “Matador” and everything else I did. I’m not a peasant either. I was born a bourgeois, but that is why I can criticise the bourgeoisie and their shabby schemes, which I can easily see through.
The one who comes first to the mill gets milled first
Those who have never made a mistake have never tried anything new.
If one is not happy with oneself, then why should others be?
I can’t give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: Try to please everybody.
It is better to be one of those who sometimes go wrong than one of those who do not go at all.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired at the age of eighteen.
If you don’t find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.
Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.