It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

Just breathing isn't living!

SHUT UP!...PADLE!

Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

Welcome to my garage. This is where I go to get away from the Honey-Do list.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

I would love to sing with Christina [Aguilera]... she has so much talent... she has an amazing voice.

You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.

Don’t buy luxuries until you’ve built the assets to afford them

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.