The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone - reading between the lines - has bcome the secret friend of their author.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.

As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever.

In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts?

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.