You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

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

One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess