Bessie-isms:

*My children have given me the deepest loves, the most painful wounds, the greatest joys. I am a better person for having them, even though I am grayer and more tired than I would have been without them.

*Your first car is always remembered more kindly than it deserves, much like your first human love; your lust, your passion for it makes you overlook its flaws and failings.

Quotable:

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

Theodore Roosevelt.