Urgh — essence of Millicent Bulstrode.
The elegance under pressure is the result of fearlessness.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
what is not true does not exist in this moment.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
The boiling water that does not cool down only dries out!