All life lessons are not learned at college,'she thought. Life teaches them everywhere.

Mrs. Cadbury: Tell me what you know about yourself. Anne Shirley: Well, it really isn't worth telling, Mrs. Cadbury... but if you let me tell you what I IMAGINE about myself you'd find it a lot more interesting.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.

Have you ever noticed how many silences there are Gilbert? The silence of the woods....of the shore....of the meadows....of the night....of the summer afternoon. All different because the undertones that thread them are different.

…I'm so thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.