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

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.

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?

Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food.

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

Up-and-coming musicians can easily reach out and find a loving teacher, and that's definitely what happened to me.

Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.

Violence is the only way to answer violence.

Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

Flattery.... gets its kicks by flirting with insult and ridicule.