Keep you secret, then, my darling. Everybody needs them. Secrets make you tough, and wily.

I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.

You have been the great green adventure of my life. Without you my days would be unlit.

It is difficult to believe extraordinary things.

Let me introduce you. Sophie, this is Miss Eliot, from the National Childcare Agency. Miss Eliot, this is Sophie, from the ocean.

Only weak thinkers do not love the sky.

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

When you trust yourself, you will come out like a beautiful sunbeam through the dark clouds!

Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.

It’s getting more difficult to be wise, ” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.

Still as On windless nights The moon-cast shadows are, So still will be my heart when I Am dead.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

willingness to explore everything is a sign of strength. The weak ones have prejudices. Prejudices are a protection.

As sheepish as a fox captured by a fowl. [Fr., Honteux comme un renard qu'une poule aurait pris.]

In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

A photograph comes into being, as it is seen, all at once.