but I learned long ago that it does no good to think too far into the future. There is only here. Only now.

I am not my mother. I love her, but I am not her.

Some things must be done however much we wish to avoid them.

Still, experience has taught me that knowing one's enemy is key to winning any battle.

Every teardrop that falls from your chin, God will catch in the palms of His hands!

What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?

It is not the greatness of the work which matters to God but the love with which it is done.

The rich hire lawyers and accountants for a reason - to pass the tax bill on to you.

I don't know where I'm supposed to meet a boyfriend. It's weird.

Money talks but it can't sing and dance and it don't walk.

Rumpty!" he muttered, which was very rude if you were one of the few people in the universe who understood what it meant.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

Instead of rating the man by his performances, we rate too frequently the performances by the man.

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.