The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.