It is good for a person who has suffered from acute shyness, as I had, to find that he can cause as much upset as he suffered. Better to be a brute, I thought, than to be a wallflower.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.

People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way - in such a way that often nobody believes me!