I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

it's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.