There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know.

- D.E. Stevenson

One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings.

- D.E. Stevenson

Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out…

- D.E. Stevenson

It was curious that when we had been able to buy new clothes when we wanted we had never really appreciated them nor enjoyed them. You have to be in …

- D.E. Stevenson

Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those …

- D.E. Stevenson

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

- D.E. Stevenson

Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, …

- D.E. Stevenson

Friends that you have known for a long time and love very dearly never seem to grow old.

- D.E. Stevenson

It is curious, isn't it, that things you know well never look dirty and dilapidated-other people's old furniture looks shabby and moth-eaten. “I woul…

- D.E. Stevenson