“Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.”

“Dont worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. Thats all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasnt it?No, I said.She raised an eyebrow. It must be. If you had admired any other qualiti...”

“I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.”

“Guys can smell desperation. It triggers an instinct in them to run far and fast so they aren't around when a woman starts peeling apart her heart. They know she'll ask for help in putting it back t...”

“Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.”

“The problem was that I'd never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn't allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.”

“Sometimes a fairy godmother needs more than magic.”

“No fairy godmother had ever spent time helping a poor and humble milk maid who was destined to die even poorer and humbler.”

“There are some things even magic cant fix.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“What work a person does to earn a viable income shapes their thinking patterns, buttresses their sense of self-worth, and affects how they adapt to predictable and unpredictable obstacles.”

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”