Dont waste time on jealousy. Sometimes youre ahead, sometimes youre behind. – Mary Schmich
Dont expect anyone else to support you. Maybe youll have a trust fund. Maybe youll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either of them might run out. – Mary Schmich
For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation. – Mary Schmich
A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich