Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.

Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder ... is clothes.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.

The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.