Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

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.

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career

The richest man is the one with the most powerful friends.

All four Gospels agree in giving us a picture of a very definite personality. One is obliged to say, "Here was a man. This could not have been invented.

No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges.

If we fail to act, we will end up with a different planet.

NEVER let other people's opinions of you determine your destiny.

You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.

It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty.

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.