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.

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.

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.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Be happy with those who are joyful.

Somewhere beyond the pain, you turn around and realize that life is beautiful.

...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force." Vesadeva to Siddartha

My dad used to wake me up at 5:30 in the morning and hit me ground balls and tell me, 'Don't be afraid to excel. Don't be afraid to be great.'

I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

I never go out, ever. And I think that's why I've been craving human connection so badly, and in a way, I'm excited to go on tour to be around people all the time.

A poet's interest in craft never fades, of course.

The crime of taxation is not in the taking it, it's in the way that it's spent.