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!

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

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

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

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.

Just breathing isn't living!

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