You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.

When you've learned to laugh at the things that should be laughed at, and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. -Aunt Jimsie

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.

Most things are predestined, but some are just darn sheer luck, said Roaring Abel.