Poor soul, she always knew everything about her neighbors, but she never was very well acquainted with herself.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

See with the eyes of love and a thing becomes beautiful. See with the eyes of hate and things are ugly.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

What was and what may be lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the arms of silence. All we have is here, now.

I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

I'm not naive enough to pretend that on its own cinema can capture the very soul of significant social and cultural problems.

You lose manufacturing jobs, you rarely ever get them back again.

Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing, it's the most exciting form of communication.

I'm not too sure if I have a very smart approach to revealing my life. Luckily, I doubt if many people really care about my life that much.