“The emerging woman will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied strength and beauty must go together.”

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don’t sell nowadays.

Stay is a charming word in a friend’s vocabulary.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally.

It’s lovely to see people so happy.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth’s sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Many argue; not many converse.

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.

Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.

The Holy Spirit loves to shape unity from the most beautiful and harmonious diversity.

The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination.

I would love to do a movie naked; it would be beautiful. No one dares make that kind of film today. They did it in the 1930s in an arty way, so why not now?

The prime function of the children’s book writer is to write a book that is so absorbing, exciting, funny, fast and beautiful that the child will fall in love with it.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

The object of education is to teach us to love what is beautiful.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.