If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

The peach-bud glows, the wild bee hums, and wind-flowers wave in graceful gladness.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

When April steps aside for May, Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten; Fresh violets open every day: To some new bird each hour we listen.

Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps a prophecy that in a perfect world we shall all know how to sing.

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

As good as that dress looks on you, I want you out of it.

As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.

If you are not different from others very distinctively, you are not different from others at all!

I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

The universe is unfolding as it should.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

When you're wide open, the world is a good place.

I want to be a mom who listens.