It is when people are told their own thoughts that they think they are being insulted.

While we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear.

One must in this lower world love many things to know finally what one loves the best.

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story.

Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90

I beg of you, you good people who want to hear stories told: look at this page and recognize the wisdom of my grandmother and of all old story-telling women!