I can't eat. I can never eat when I'm in the depths of despair.

We can't always take the most obvious road in life.

I went looking for my dreams outside of myself and discovered, it's not what the world holds for you, it's what you bring to it.

But if you only knew how many things I want to say and don't.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair... People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

I had the most beautiful set of theories you ever knew when I started out as a schoolma'am, but every one of them has failed me at some pinch or another.

November is usually such a disagreeable month as if the year had suddenly found out she was growing old and could do nothing but weep and fret over it.

Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.

No matter where I go or how I change, I'll always be your Anne. Anne of Green Gables.

I just love bright red drinks!

If I gave America any kind of hope or any kind of inspiration, I really want to say thank you for allowing me to continue doing that week after week.

Be clear about your goal but be flexible about the process of achieving it.

The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

I always knew I belonged on the other side of the lens.

The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

Thought would destroy their paradise.

What gets measured gets done.

If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.

did you ever see anybody so disgusting: said lightning to thunder, "never" thunder growled thunder, "lets give him the works