Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible. – Marion C. Garretty, quoted in A Little Spoonful of Chicken Soup for the Mother&#
Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard. – Jean Cocteau (1889–1963), translated from French