A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.

But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted.

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

If you follow the light of the world, you will never walk in darkness.

It is a long lane that has no turning.

I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night.

So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

I wouldn't be surprised if Hillary's [Clinton] people had something to do with putting them on these evenings because that's what she did to Bernie Sanders.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I am the captain of my pain.

The day you realize that your efforts and rewards are not related, it really frees up your calendar.

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music.