That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.

I wish every one in the world was as warm and sheltered as we are tonight.

Isn't it better to have your heart broken than to have it wither up? Before it could be broken it must have felt something splendid. That would be worth the pain.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

If any person wants to see clearly just how much she has changed - whether for better or worse - let her revisit after some lapse of time any place where she has ones lived. She will meet her former self at every turn, with every familiar face, in every old recollection ... She will see how much she has gained in some respects, how much she has lost - irretrievably lost - in others.