“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it ...”

“If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out o...”

“He sat down in his chair by the fire and began to chat, as was his habit before he and his wife parted to dress for dinner. When he was out during the day he often looked forward to these chats, an...”

“Mrs. Warren allowed her book to fall closed upon her lap, and her attractive face awakened to an expression of agreeable expectation, in itself denoting the existence of interesting and desirable q...”

“Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.”

“I wish I was friends with things," he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.”

“The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel.”

“There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.”

“The most important thing in life is wisdom and not money”

“I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people-to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole, to see the cause and think it's the effect or vice versa”

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”

“I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.”

“There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way.”

“Rich and wealth comes to a man only through diligence”

“No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consis...”