He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.

You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

Maybe it’s the quiet, ” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.

Enlightenment is the key to empowerment.

Not for everyone a darkest night is bid farewell by a bright sunrise.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.

When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.

Hatred, in the course of time, kills the unhappy wretch who delights in nursing it in his bosom.

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

Waking up each morning to a hysterical alarm clock on the bedside table.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.