Always desire to learn something useful.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
After a storm comes a calm.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
It's always too early to quit.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives.
Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.