Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

I just found this world a hard place to be good in, ’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

Be careful you don’t give up on what is yet to give you victory. Many people quit when they were yet to win. Successful people never quit and I believe no quitter had ever been successful too.

She was always the first to love, first to encourage, first to forgive...for everyone but herself.

Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

Une histoire d'amour dont les épisodes ont été mélangés par un fou

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him.

The most important thing that each of us can do is to try even harder to see the world through our neighbor's eyes.

I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.

I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.