There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

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.

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.

I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.