When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

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

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

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.