A thousand things advance nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat that is progress.

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past

In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Trials are a measure of your faith, so be courageous when going through trials in life.

I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben.

If every lover was treated like they matter — everyday

I'm exhausted from not talking.

Mediation gives you knowledge about God. Obedience gives you knowledge of God.

Beare with evill, and expect good.

Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

Every inventor is a crackpot until his idea succeeds.

The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.