The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

Every search has its own momentum. It is why a search makes such an excellent plot for a film or story.

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected.

Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.