Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.

We belong to the race that knows Joseph

Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve of Anne’s arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.

Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.