Then Diana puts too many murders into [her stories]. She says most of the time she doesn’t know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them.

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.

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

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?

It's all right to have expectations in marriage. Just remember to keep them at the feet of Jesus, not at the feet of your spouse

Science was born, when religion failed to find the God!

God's silence is an answer itself.

True love is like wine, it gets stronger with age.

One had to be careful with elbows and boys

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

Even in a war, someone has to take care of daily life. Someone has to feed and clothe the children.

I still go to bed in mascara on the chance I'll be seen a lover.

If you want to hear the facts, you are going to have to let me speak.

Consciousness is the ground of all being; everything is consciousness. Beyond that, definition is impossible because any way we may attempt to define it would limit consciousness.