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.

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

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

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.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared, ' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

I really don't know what "I love you" means.I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.

The fingers on the windows leave traces on them

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

Nothing is properly one's duty but what is also one's interest.

I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Speaking seriously, Russia does not want to aggravate relations with anyone. We don't want any tensions. We want a good, friendly partnership with everyone.