We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

How a plain and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

And that's another piece of advice I'll give junior writers; when you get to the point where they take you to lunch, let the editor suggest where to go.

The decided to go exploring, be Indiana Jones they don't have a light they don't have a map you're a screwed with a capital S.

Stop. I’m not going to take any more input until I’ve made something with what I got.

In every story I have heard, good teachers share one trait: a strong sense of personal identity infuses their work.

Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.