Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.

Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Why shouldn't I hate her? She did the worst thing to me that anyone can do to anyone else. Let them believe that they're loved and wanted and then show them that it's all a sham.

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

Nurses - nurses, you'm all the same. Full of cheerfulness over other people's troubles.

As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.