"Encouragement is food for the heart, and every heart is a hungry heart."

“Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk”

“No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.”

“No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.”

“I'll always be poor in my mind.”

“Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities. We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear.”

“I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.”

Source : Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, Anchor

“Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!”