Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

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

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

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.

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