Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

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.

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

I'm nobody's fool, least of all yours.

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

Humility is the key to liberation.

When object of our anxiety is God, then that brings ecstacy.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.