Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

If you think I'm one of the people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably illtempered in the early morning.

You had to endure something yourself before it touched you.

Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.

Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It was not the future, it was the present. It was too vivid and too real.

... and through it all and afterwards they would be together, making their own world where nothing mattered but the things they could give to one another, the loveliness, the silence, and the peace.

I could not ask forgiveness for something I had not done. As scapegoat, I could only bear the fault.