I'm afraid concerts spoil people for everyday life.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

You are your passion. Life is your ultimate mission so never forget to enjoy the adventure.

He that lives upon hope will die farting.

Know the great men of your age.

When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.

It is not when it is dangerous to tell the truth that its advocates are hardest to find, but when it is boring.

Don't stop doing what you love. Don't let your future be ruined by a bunch of loony sand monkeys.

You can't look good everytime, even if you try to no matter what.

I believe in an ultimate decency of things.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.