The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

A faith is that which is able to survive a mood.

This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

When the chord of monotony is stretched to its tightest, it breaks with the sound of a song.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller