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

I love different folks.

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

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

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

One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!