You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

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.

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

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!

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The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Perhaps our Congress will be Exalted on a high Gallows.

When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.

I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.

I want to be mayor, but I don’t need to be mayor. I’m not a career politician.

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

I have a crazy sense of humor so if someone is just trying to be rude to me, or if you can tell that someone is angry for no reason, I like to entertain them.

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.