He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps he is to be found in the faces of some mothers also.

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

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

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.

You never really lose someone

So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

Don't call me a saint; I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart