The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.

Beauty is not about make up it’s about what it makes you to be from within.

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Cultivate peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally.

I just think lots of words have physicality. How about the word 'wobble?' You think that's arbitrary? When you say the word 'wince,' you wince. How about that?

When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.

I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.