... justice is mercy's highest self.

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.

Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

We're failing our children with education, we're failing our environment.

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

I always believed in my characters. I lived them

To genius life never grows commonplace.

'The David Letterman Show' is a show of comedy.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.