The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.

It's only by being obstinate that anything is got, or done.

As one gets older being sad and miserable can become a bit of a habit. To counteract this, she suggests making a point of savoring such things as the tastiness of a piece of fruit, or other small things we might have been prone to overlook during our younger, busier days.

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.

in California I began to think that, except on the beaches, no-one had the use of their legs.

cleverness is a disease.

Memory is the only friend of grief.