Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.

I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.