To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life.

To have all my dear ones together under one roof - that is all I ask of life.

It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in the position of needing things very badly indeed before you can appreciate possessing them.

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

In a new friend we start life anew, for we create a new edition of ourselves and so become,for the time being, a new creature.

It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. “I would never have that horrible old couch in my room,” you say. But your own old couch is every bit as bad and you are not disgusted with its appearance; it is your friend, you see, and you remember it when it was new and smart. Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.