Bessie-isms:

*Don’t buy your kids tons of things. Help them find real dreams, and eventually they’ll succeed enough to buy their own stuff!

*Whatever you’re starving for, food, love, acclaim, can be used to bait a trap. Remember that when the thing you hunger for suddenly appears, especially when you haven’t worked for it.

Quotable:

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

Mark Twain