Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance

But some climbs you have to make alone.

Half of life is lost in charming others.The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.Leave this play. You have played enough.

Strange how seeing the light can make a person feel so alone in the darkness

I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as anybody else. That was a very unsettling thought. What if I was really dumb and didn't know it?

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

The moment you lose curiosity in the world, you might as well be dead.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.