Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after a while and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

I've come home in love with loneliness

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar, ' said Anne.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature.

The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted my heart into a mushy, yummy Fudgsicle.

Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them.

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

And then--a Day as huge As Yesterdays in pairs, Unrolled its horror in my face-- Until it blocked my eyes

Love is a very hard feeling to keep alive. It's a very fragile plant.

Give Him your mess and let it become your message.

All governments are in equal measure good and evil. The best ideal is anarchy.

The queen!" someone shouted in alarm, and the King erupted like a wild animal caught in a snare.