I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders an…

- Jean Webster

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

- Jean Webster

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

- Jean Webster

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, …

- Jean Webster

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

- Jean Webster

Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late …

- Jean Webster

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

- Jean Webster

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

- Jean Webster

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying…

- Jean Webster