If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.

Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

One way or another, if you're persistent, fortune always smiles on you.

Today coming to work, I saw one of those only in New York scenes. It was a rat who had passed out after choking on a pretzel.

Until you've tasted it [anything], you can't really know it.

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

There've been a lot more people hurt on astro-turf than grass.

God is never late, but rarely early.

I don't think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it's finding the right thing.

I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.