Bessie-isms:

*Prayer is good. So is hope. But for accomplishing what you want there isn’t much better than work for getting things done.

*Your teenager won’t understand why you had to be such a pain until they have their own teenager to deal with. You’ll like that a lot more than you think you should when you witness it.

Quotable:

The most difficult year of marriage is the one you’re in.

Franklin P. Jones