It's bad enough to feel insignificant, but it's unbearable to have it grained into your soul that you will never, can never, be anything but insignificant.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

Fear is a confession of weakness. What you fear is stronger than you, or you think it is, else you wouldn't be afraid of it.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.