It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

We often laughed at others in our house, and I picked up the craft of being polite while people were present and laughing later if there was anything to laugh about.

The sparkle and morning-freshness of the shop, and the butter-conjuring girl, formed a mind-picture which accompanied the whole of my youth.(about the Buttercup Dairy)

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.