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

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.

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.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the breath.

Cinema Paradiso, because it reminds me of why I make movies, the magic of movies, the romance of movies.

I am serious about not being serious.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

Gratitude is the heart of Friendship.

The writing of a poem is, for me, in the first place, an almost total act of abandon leading to discovery leading to recognition.

You're alive, you might as well be glad.

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.