She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism.

[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

You have done it by being yourself. Perhaps that is what being a friend means, after all.

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.

In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.

The sea at springtime.All day it rises and falls,yes, rises and falls.