Mary Schmich

“'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'”

“A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.”

“One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.”

“For some Chicago expats, food is the medicine that blunts the pain of separation.”

“You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.”

“Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.”

“Advice is a form of Nostalgia”

“TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape.”

“In twenty years you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked.”

“Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.”