The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.