Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

„It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. ”

Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now.

“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.”

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

If you talk to the animals, they will talk to you, and you will know each other.