“Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.”
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.