But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.

If a pleasure lasts forever, it isn’t a pleasure anymore.

I've never listened to music lying down. Listening's reading if you close your eyes.Music's a wood you walk through.

Learn from Bad and Understand from Good.

The more we seek through development and advancement, is in fact the more we lack.

If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.

I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary.

Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.