She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.

The thing about stories is you have to pick the ones that last.

Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible. It had never let her down.

Where's the pleasure in bein' the winner if the loser ain't alive to know they've lost?

Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.