It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

This is your heart.Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

He and I always think the same things are funny, and that is such a lot; it's dreadful when two people's senses of humour are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf! And he is--Oh, well! He is just himself, and I miss him, and miss him, and miss him. The whole world seems empty and aching. I hate the moonlight because it's beautiful and he isn't here to see it with me. But maybe you've loved somebody, too, and you know? If you have, I don't need to explain; if you haven't, I can't explain.