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

Just breathing isn't living!

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!

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.

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

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.

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.