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.

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

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.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.

Love is indiscriminate in the path it takes to find you.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Being a Scotsman, I am naturally opposed to water in its undiluted state.

Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.

If you have lost your life, remember that He promises that you will find it.

I always knew I had to work hard.

The fact that the apes exist and that we can study them is extremely important and makes us reflect on ourselves and our human nature. In that sense alone, you need to protect the apes.

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power.