Be glad that once you did experience that magic. It's part of who you are now, and you're richer for it.

When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

You do not have to be fearless, just don't let fear stop you.

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain

Keeping even the most humble talent wrapped in a napkin becomes the more reprehensible the greater the emergency.

Happiness is free, there are no conditions.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

In reality, life was arranged and human relations were complicated so utterly beyond all understanding that when one thought about it one felt uncanny and one's heart sank.