Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

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

Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian

Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.

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.

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.