April is a promise of what's to come.

My own recipe for world peace is a bit of land for everyone.

the real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance ... Days are no longer jagged peaks to climb; time is a meadow, and we move over it with level steps.

A good recipe for a human reducing breakfast is a lot of good things to eat, and three spaniels and two cats to eat with.

I suppose I am a sparrow, a stay-at-home bird.

Perhaps what makes friendship and love exciting is the continuing discovery of another personality.

There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.