The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.
What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them. Sometimes I feel as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find...
I know we didn’t have very long together, but what we did have was special. Not many people achieve such happiness, even for a year or two.
Loving isn’t finding perfection, but forgiving horrible faults.
It was good and nothing good is ever lost.
Oh well. Better out than in,
He's threatening to breed polo ponies, but he's always been a man of great ideas, but little action, so I don't suppose he will.
People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.
She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now, in a single instant, the curtains had been whipped aside, and the...
Marriage isn't a love affair. It isn't even a honeymoon. It's a job. A long hard job, at which both partners have to work, harder than they've worked at anything in their lives before. If it's a good...
Happiness is making the most of what you have, and riches is making the most of what you've got.
Just remember that the most important thing is to be truthful to yourself. If you hang on to that, you won’t go far wrong.
I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.
I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.
Fear knocked at the door, Faith went to answer it, and no one was there.
There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.
The air smelled of box and mint and thyme and newly turned earth. Laura
It was better not to get too close to another person. The closer you got, the more likely you were to get hurt.
Nothing’s worth anything unless somebody wants it.
Go and be happy.