It being a part of Mrs. Pipchin's system not to encourage a child's mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I don't know what it is with you, but I somehow become more a woman when ever your around.

Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.

We learn a lot, but the actions we don't put behind those things that we learn and we continue to make the same mistakes.

I am never embarrassed by something that makes people laugh.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

I'm less of a straight-up, traditional vocalist.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.