we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

I know who you are. My father told me stories about you. He talked about your hands- hands that created the world surrendered to cruel nails

Life with trials hard may press me

Where the mind goes the body will follow.

Believe in yourself and go for it

All great writers begin with a good leather binding and a respectable title.

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.

They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

A completely secure life can be found only outside the life!

If you believe, if you value and treasure and revere the institution of marriage, then you should want every family unit to be really wrapped in marriage.