When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

Nothing is bad which does not harm either you or someone else.

I've just washed my hair and I can't do a thing with it!

Nothing in the world was ever built without a dream at the beginning.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.