Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.

When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

A broken heart in real life isn't half as dreadful as it is in books. It's a good deal like a bad tooth, though you won't think THAT a very romantic simile. It takes spells of aching and gives you a sleepless night now and then, but between times it lets you enjoy life and dreams and echoes and peanut candy as if there were nothing the matter with it.

I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

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

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life.