What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for.

But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in common with a cow stretching its neck through a gate for better grass.

I love Christmas. A time to slow down and enjoy life and be with my family and friends. In busy years, it keeps me sane. In bad years, it makes me feel whole again.

I've always thought of this city as Disneyland for adults. ... There's no danger of Las Vegas expiring from an excess of good taste.