Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.

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.

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now?

Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

People who don't like cats always seem to think there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.

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.