But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

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.

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

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?

A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion.

Not being liked was so much worse than being invisible.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

Why should it be that just when technology is most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

The bound are going to go free because Jesus is in this Dome.

In the presence of death I affirm and reaffirm the truth of all that I have said against the superstitions of the world. I would say that much on the subject with my last breath.

Development, it turns out, occurs through this process of progressively more complex exchange between a child and somebody else- especially somebody who’s crazy about that child

The problems of language here are really serious. We wish to speak in some way about the structure of the atoms. But we cannot speak about atoms in ordinary language.