“As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.”

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

“Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just beecause I never have any trials. (Sara Crewe, A Little Princess)”

“Sara...looked long and hard at his face.'Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?' he said...'No,' she answered. 'I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”

“She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.”

“To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in, you may never get over it as long as you live.”

“What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.”