As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory.

If this is Heaven, I am in big trouble.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer

It is a generally accepted myth that all creation stories are myths.

It takes more courage to be yourself than to live in the prison of ego with feelings of guilt. It takes a lot more courage to be happy than to be unhappy.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Kate had never in her life seen such frightful deformities, and the goblins had never seen such a hideous dress.

In short, realism reveals. Where we thought nothing worthy of notice, it shows everything to be rife with significance.

When I was young, no one wanted to be one; now even the President of the United States would call himself an outsider. So now I'm for insiders.

The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.