I believe in giving as honest an answer as I can. Because perhaps if people spent more time being honest with each other, especially with children, there would be less unhappiness in the world.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way--in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel--really is lovely.

Love is the magic ink, which transform everyday life into a poetry.

Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL

Flying from the U.S. to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.

Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

I'd always have a sort of automatic urge to share what I'm doing with other people.

In real life, I'm not super-posh but if that's the stereotype, I really don't care. It could be worse.

Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.