My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

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.

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?

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

Holding on to grudges holds you back from achieving success.

Love is the master key that opens every blessings door.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

It is a foolish man who believes that the status quo can be maintained indefinitely.

So what really gets me is these chickenhawks, who sent our kids to die, without ever serving in a war themselves. They don't know what it's all about

I think they were scared of me because I was different.

I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema

Keep it simple, keep it sexy, keep it sad.

The person with the most flexibility has the best chance of achieving the outcome he or she desires