It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

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.

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

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!

The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.

The president is the country's scapegoat more than the country's leader; the president has as much power as we think the president has. Whoever has the most money is the puppet master.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

I come from the school of thought that says when people have more money in their pocket during economic times, it increases demand or investment. Small businesses begin to grow, and jobs are added.

Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the deep consent of all great men that he is greater than they.

There is so much misinformation out there. If you give people even a little bit, it gets blown out of proportion then you have to go put out fires. So it's much easier to say, 'No comment.'

Some people die twice: once when they retire, and again when they actually pass away. Fear of the first one is a big incentive for me to keep working.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.