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

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

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

'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said 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.

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

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.