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

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.

But housekeeping is fun. It is one job where you enjoy the results right along as you work. You may work all day washing and ironing, but at night you have the delicious feeling of sunny clean sheets and airy pillows to lie on. If you clean, you sit down at nightfall with the house shining and faintly smelling of wax, all yours to enjoy right then and there. And if you cook—that creation you lift from the oven goes right to the table.

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

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.

Nothing makes a house cozier than cats.

nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!