Bessie-isms:

*Most of you will never rise to the level of evil evinced by Stalin or Ted Bundy. The evil you do will be small and repetitive, caused mostly by indifference and neglect, rather than conscious planning.

*Can you explain why you’ve made so many small mistakes and poor decisions? You didn’t get to your current place of failure or misery with one big decision, but with many tiny ones. You’ll get out of the ditch by the same slow incremental path also, or you won’t get out at all!

Quotable:

Doubt the man who swears to his devotion.

Louise Colet