Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

It all comes down to that one person you always think about before you fall asleep at night. And text "Good Morning" as soon as you wake up.

Life is gassy you just have to blow through it to see clearly and if eventually you see through, don't be misleaded by what you see either good or bad.

We need more extreme movies in Sweden. Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

Say it clearly and you make it beautiful, no matter what.

We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.

All those vitamins aren't to keep death at bay, they're to keep deterioration at bay.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.