We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.

Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.