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With families, no matter what kind you inherit, at some point you want to announce that you belong to it.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

I think it's your duty to overcome what you inherit in life.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.