The world looks like something God had just imaged for his own pleasure, doesn't it?

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.

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

Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

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

Life is a dancing dream.

[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!

It's always a pleasure to find something that matters.

This little four-string songwriting tool started changing the way I brought songs to the group.

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.

To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear.

Japan is quite weird because they wait for you to say something before they respond. You can literally hear a pin drop, they don't make a sound until you say something to the crowd.

Classical music has been based on works people love and come back to for aural comfort.

Don't trust the person who has broken faith once.