The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!

Most of my writing life consist of nothing more than unglamorous, disciplined labor. I sit at my desk and I work like a farmer, and that's how it gets done.

My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

The body knows things about which the mind is ignorant

They're Twin-like," Shaunee said. "Hilarious," Erin agreed. "Shut up!" Aphrodite and Stevie Rae said together, which made the Twins convulse into laughter.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses.

There's little comfort in the wise