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

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.

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!

Just breathing isn't living!

In any situation, there is hope. Don’t give! Be strong!

It is not what a man is capable of doing, but what he chooses to do that is important.

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.

I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy.

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.