Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Easy enough to dismiss others' problems when you had none of your own.

People make one happy, not houses.

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.

In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.

Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

The library is the temple of learning.

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

If your heart is open it can never stay broken.

Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace.