People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. It would be terrible if we just skipped from September to November, wouldn't it?

That's a lovely idea, Diana,' said Anne enthusiastically. 'Living so that you beautify your name, even if it wasn't beautiful to begin with…making it stand in people's thoughts for something so lovely and pleasant that they never think of it by itself. Thank you, Diana.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

She suddenly found herself laughing without bitterness.

Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?