The point is that one's got an instinct to live. One doesn't live because one's reason assents to living. People who, as we say, 'would be better dead' don't want to die! People who apparently have everything to live for just let themselves fade out of life because they haven't got the energy to fight.

Difficulties are made to be overcome ~ Miss Felicity Lemon, Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Plymouth Express

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.