Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us

However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.

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

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.