Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.
Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.
Your voice dries up if you don't use it.
Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.
it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.
I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.
youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.
There will be no doubt about His having chosen you when you have chosen Him.
Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew that the eye of heaven is upon you, and that you are living under the approbation or disapprobation of God.
Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.
A lot of dyslexic kids are actually more intelligent than average and are very good, because they've got very good memories, at disguising the fact that they can't read or have got problems in reading and literacy.