Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.

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 are not the world, but you are everything that makes the world good. Without you, my life would still exist, but that's all it would manage to do.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite the contrary.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

Where there is too much, something is missing.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

The American people reject the idea of giving Washington a blank check to increase the debt limit.

There's a long conversation we're going to have about how to enforce immigration laws. But physically securing the border is essential.