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.

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

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!

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

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a writer, to think about that.

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.

Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.

There is a generation begging for you to be real... and to be real now.

The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.