Elizabeth Michel > Elizabeth's Quotes

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“There are shortcuts to happiness and dancing is one of them!”
― Vicki Baum, Ballerina

“It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

“Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock

“When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.”
― Mary Higgins Clark

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The bride's about to throw her bouquet," Mom told me the day after she turned 96. "Come on, June, get me up there!" (She stole the bouquet and kept it.)”
― Nora 102 1 2 A Lesson on Aging Well by June Shaw