I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.

If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

People go on marrying because they can't resist natural forces, although many of them may know perfectly well that they are possibly buying a month's pleasure with a life's discomfort.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…

“Being crazy isn’t enough.”

“They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”

“Oh the things you can find, if you don’t stay behind!”

“In the places I go there are things that I see that I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.”

“How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”

“Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.”

“Simple it’s not, I am afraid you will find, for a mind-maker-upper to make up his mind.”

“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”

“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.”

“In my world, everyone’s a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!”

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory.”

“I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends. My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”

“Think and wonder, wonder and think.”

“So be sure when you step, step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed) Kid, you’ll move mountains.”

“Only you can control your future.”

“It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.”

“You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!”

“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”

“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.”

“Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.”

“It’s opener there in the wide open air.”

“You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.”

“Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky!”

“With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you’re too smart to go down any not-so-good street.”

“Congratulations! Today is your day!”

“Think! You can think any Think that you wish!”

“Take every chance. Drop every fear.”

“Teeth are always in style.”

“You do not like them. So you say. Try them! Try them! And you may!”

“And you very small persons will not have to die if you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”

“Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.”