Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

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.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients.

I never divide photographers into creative and uncreative, I just call them photographers. Who is creative? How do you know who is creative or not?

At least no one's trying to kill anyone. Give them about fifteen minutes

I've never had paparazzi follow me and I rarely get recognised. I dress like a tramp when I'm not working. My hairdresser calls me the Romanian window cleaner. That's just the way I am.

I have only ever borrowed money for investment. I have been sound money all my life.

My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.

She's the kind you don't take home to mother.

Amos sipped his coffee. The faraway look on his face reminded me of my dad. “I don’t want to scare you.” “Too late.