Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

A lie twice believed is self decieved

Are you what others say and think you are?  Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?

this life has been a landscape of painand still, flowersbloom in it.

I'm scared, okay? I'm really scared all the time.

The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewarded sacrifices that a mother (Joan Crawford) makes for her spoiled, greedy daughter (Ann Blythe).

Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.

Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness.

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.

I've coached doing judo, but I've never coached MMA. I'll have my own coach with me to help me along the way and I can't really fail with him by my side, but I'm a little nervous.

I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.