I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.

The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and in the way you act from day to day, in the way you treat other people. It's honesty, and unselfishness, and kindness. Especially kindness.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.

Isn't it mysterious to begin a new journal like this? I can run my fingers through the fresh clean pages but I cannot guess what the writing on them will be.