When I don't like the name of a place or a person I always imagine a new one and always think of them so. " Anne of Green Gables

When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Ale cóż, jak powiedziałaby pani Linde, słońce będzie nadal wstawać i zachodzić, nie oglądając się na to, czy zdam ten egzamin, czy nie.

In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.