To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.