"You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel." "It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything." "She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds." "Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate...