The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

Just breathing isn't living!

These were the moments that would stick in her memory for years to come, those instants of perfect bliss that nothing else would ever match again.

We shall overcome every barrier by divine grace.

I respect Jay-Z. I like him.

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.

It's sad when you see somebody that talented that passes away and doesn't have to.

Men are motivated when they feel needed while women are motivated when they feel cherished.

It doesn't do a lot of good for your health to move from red meat to white meat, but it gets you further down the road towards making more substantial changes later.

Love didn't always solve the problem; sometimes it became the problem.

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth.