"I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."
"Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it."
"...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. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?"
"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."
"Jane's stories are too sensible. Then Diana puts too much murders into hers. She says most of the time she doesn't know what to do with the people so she kills them off to get rid of them."-Anne Shirley"
"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."