English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness.

