Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful…

I suppose all this sounds very crazy — all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken — only felt and endured.

Oh, Marilla, I thought I was happy before. Now I know that I just dreamed a pleasant dream of happiness. This is the reality.

She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.

Gilbert put his arm about them. 'Oh, you mothers!' he said. 'You mothers! God knew what He was about when He made you.

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

The p'int of good writing is to know when to stop.

Changes come all the time. Just as soon as things get really nice they change, ' she said with a sigh.

A woman cannot ever be sure of not being married till she is buried, Mrs. Doctor, dear, and meanwhile I will make a batch of cherry pies.

…but youth yearned to youth.

You will reach success if you move forward, staying still only makes your journey longer.

A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else’s.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

I received free health care.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.

Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already.

There will always be bull markets followed by bear markets followed by bull markets

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.