If you face a delicate situation,
Don't go into it wearing your spurs
or you will rip it apart.

Instead, dress for the occasion.
Cloak yourself in Diplomacy.
Vest yourself with Wisdom,
and wear a Smile.
(Ann McKay Thompson)

For me it is the challenge ---
The challenge to try to beat myself
or to better than I did in the last.

I try to keep in mind
not what I have accomplished
But what I have done to try to accomplish
in the future.
(Jackie Joyner-Kersee)

The labor of keeping house
Is labor in its most named state.
For labor is toil that never finishes,
Toil that has to be begun again
The moment it is completed,
Toil that is destroyed and consumed by the Life Process.
(Mary McCarthy)