there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad." Anne: "You know something, Diana? We are rich. We have sixteen years to our credit, and we both have wonderful imaginations. We should be as happy as queens." [gestures to the setting sun] Anne Shirley: "Look at that. You couldn't enjoy its loveliness more if you had ropes of diamonds.

The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Since ever the world was spinning And till the world shall end You've your man in the beginning Or you have him in the end, But to have him from start to finish And neither nor borrow nor lend Is what all of the girls are wanting And none of the gods can send