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

Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

What would happen if all the populations on the planet simply refused to fight human beings they did not even know?

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came back in time to light the candles and set the table for supper.

November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.

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.