Why the devil was my husband positively grinning - and with what looked remarkably like relief?

It is an amazing thing, the difference to one’s powers of concentration a pair of comfortable shoes can make.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head.

You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

Most damning of phrases: He meant well.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Only the careless leave a possibility unattended due to assumptions.

The keen spirit seizes the prompt occasion.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

Unless we progress, we regress.

Dress how you feel and love what you wear because at the end of the day you have got to wear and feel great in it.

Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.

If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.