This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.
You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already.
you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.
The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.
I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.
the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.
Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.
Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.
A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.