On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot.

I've had a good life, full of more success and happiness than I ever expected.

You can't lay down laws for what people think and hope.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

It was so silly to try to define things by words. What did one person mean by infatuation or obsession and another mean by love. The whole thing couldn't be tidied away with neat little labels." - Lena Gray

We have to make our own happiness, and we have to make our own decisions and play the hand that is dealt to us.