never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

If we don't chase things, sometimes the things following us can catch up." -L.M. Montgomery

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.

Beauty is not the reflection of your image, but the reflection of the seer's inner vision.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say.

It is a curious thing that when one speaks from the heart it is invariably in the worst of taste.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

None comes into the world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.

Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.