Bessie-isms:

* Character is the measure of what your are, not what you wish to be, imagine you are or someday hope you’ll be. If you take stock of your character, and find it lacking, you must work hard to improve it. If you are of mostly good character you will. The ones of mostly bad character will decide to stick with what they’ve got.

*All the talent of God will do you no good if you lack the confidence to use it!

Quotable:

When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn