I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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?

Positive spirit, positive strength.

We are so busy trying to make a better TOMORROW that we forget to make the best of TODAY.-RVM

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.

Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts.

When Jesus Christ forgives you of sin, He never brings it back up.

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.

I said, "Suppose communists come out against cancer, do we have to automatically come out for cancer?'" I can't take back that I'm against the poll tax, that I'm against lynching, that I'm for peace.