Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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.

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.

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?

My pride had risen up and whopped me in the face. I don't lose my temper a lot, but when I do, I make a good job of it.

Roses, " she thought sardonically, "All trash, m’dear.

Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

Two people unable to cry finally cry together and in the world ended today, we would be fulfilled.

There is no way you can think outside of your culture.

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

The few existing writings against Kantian philosophy are the most important documents in the case history of sound common sense.

I still believe a majority of Republicans are for income tax cuts.

...an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.