It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

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.

All women are princesses , it is our right.

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

You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

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.