Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.

Houses are like people - some you like and some you don't like - and once in a while there is one you love.

Youth is not a vanished thing but something that dwells forever in the heart.

brains last, beauty doesn't.

Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thanks goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin.

That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.