It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature.

Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.

Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.

Eighty percent of our criminals come from unsympathetic homes.

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.

Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.