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.

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

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.

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

You have a very high probability of your quote and your name being distributed, posted, and shared around the world!

I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.

Who. Hit. You?

My life has been that of someone who has moved from the countryside to the society. To make that transition, I have had to learn a lot.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

Each source that I read, I would look through the bibliography and the footnotes, and use that as a map for the next thing I would read.

My book is traditional. It runs counter to the post-modern spirit.

Dreams don't have an expiration date.

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

Body armor. Four thousand pounds of body armor. And missile-proof glass? Nice. What had happened to good old-fashioned bulletproof?