Dorothy Gilman

“If I must be ruled, let it be by a tyrant of my own choosing.”

“There is nothing so debilitating as a safe and secure life.”

“The only real security is in having lots of experiences.”

“Boredom is the keynote of poverty... it's not a lack of money, it's a lack of anything to do.”

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.”

“Life is a journey, not a guided tour.”

“Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.”

“She had always been a chameleon, surviving by blending in.”

“What a computer is to me is the most remarkable toy I have ever come across.”

“Sometimes you just have to go with the tides.”

“It's the unexpected that teaches us.”

“I think everyone has a private world of their own.”

“One can't run from oneself, and the inescapable truth is that we are the sum of our choices.”