I wish I was friends with things, " he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.

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.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

The prettiest flower still had to struggle to surface.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.