I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults. I think that a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.

Look, do you see that poem?' she said suddenly, pointing.

Oh, of course there's a risk in marrying anybody, but, when it's all said and done, there's many a worse thing than a husband.

She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare.

I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart.

Fancies are like shadows...you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

I've come home in love with loneliness

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

People who are different from other people are always called peculiar, ' said Anne.

Let us not talk about problems. Let us think and talk about solutions.

Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.

Perhaps only those who had loved and lost could appreciate this magic.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

Feminism is a theory, lesbianism is a practice.