True friends are always together in spirit. (Anne Shirley)

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?

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

I remember a new heaviness in my body, but maybe that's the work of time and my looking back.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No where it is dangerous to say No.

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

I almost never have a plan for myself... I'm not ambitious in that way.

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug.

All things being equal, the primary competitive advantage of your business will be your ability to grow Leaders Without Titles faster than your industry peers.

Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.