 One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood. |
| There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. |
| The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. |
| Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more. |
| The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. |
| Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. |
| If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. |
| Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. |
| There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger. |
| I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. |
| I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me. |
| Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity. |
| Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. |
| Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. |
