Chinese Proverb: "A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

Don’t marry a man unless you’d be proud to have a son exactly like him.

Go home, mow the lawn, wash the windows, learn to cook, build a raft, get a job, visit the sick, study your lessons, and after you’ve finished, read a book. Your town does not owe you recreational facilities and your parents do not owe you fun. The world does not owe you a living, you owe the world something. You owe it your time, energy and talent so that no one will be at war, in poverty or sick and lonely again. In other words, grow up, stop being a cry baby, get out of your dream world and develop a backbone, not a wishbone. Start behaving like a responsible person. You are important and you are needed. It’s too late to sit around and wait for somebody to do something someday.

Love your mother, the most beautiful person on this earth. Our best critic, yet our strongest supporter.

Sometimes you meet someone, and it’s so clear that the two of you, on some level belong together. As lovers, or as friends, or as family, or as something entirely different. You just work, whether you understand one another or you’re in love or you’re partners in crime. You meet these people throughout your life, out of nowhere, under the strangest circumstances, and they help you feel alive. I don’t know if that makes me believe in coincidence, or fate, or sheer blind luck, but it definitely makes me believe in something.

I don’t care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family.

Your height is usually determined by your father. Intelligence, emotional strength and body shape are determined by the mother.