The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things.

Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first.

This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.

I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, 'I love you. How about getting married?

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.