"Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins."

“One of the worst things anybody can do is assume. I think fools assume. If people have really got it together, they never assume anything. They believe, they work hard, and they prepare- but they don't assume.”

“Today is a new day. A New opportunity to get better stronger faster smarter and closer to your goals and dreams. Take it.”

“You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.”

“The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.”

Source : Quoted in WChadwick Women, Art and Society (1990).

“Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?" She taps the side of her head. "Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.”

“Sometimes someone coming in doesn't have the natural passion for it, but they find it through the coaching or mentoring I give them. I'm sort of opening curtains or blinds and all of a sudden they see it, they get it.”

“I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.”

“Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.”