It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

Don't you know that it is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time?

Anne Shirley. Anne with an "e.

Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare... Perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.