Bessie-isms:

*If you wish to have God criticize you less someday, it behooves you to be criticizing yourself a lot more now.

*Hope is as strong as steel, and can stand against all adversity. Yet it can evaporate as swiftly as the dew, if you let your fears gain a toehold.

Quotable:

The best things and the best people rise out of their separateness: I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Robert Frost