A body of work may be reviled - mostly by those who have no knowledge of its workings - and yet still carry elements of what can only be considered eternal truths.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Set aside even one day just for fun, and you will improve the next seven.

We have preserved the book, and the book has preserved us.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

Said about Napier's logarithms: . . . by shortening the labors doubled the life of the astronomer.

I like playing for Oakland, they have a very colorful uniform.

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.

Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.

Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.