... we always love best the people who need us.

I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And asking Diana if she takes sugar! I know she doesn't but of course I'll ask her just as if I didn't know.

I know you're a fool, Jim Hardy, but for heaven's sake pretend you're not for five minutes.

If it's IN you to climb you must -- there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills -- they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

I feel as though someone's handed me the moon... and I don't exactly know what to do with it.

Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.