She shakes him; that is what she presumable does to other readers too. That is, presumably why, in the larger picture, she exists. What a strange reward for a lifetime of shaking people: to be conveyed to this town in Pennsylvania and given money!

The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes.

I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.

Don't make excuses. Make commitments and stick to them.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.