I am sustained by Being Necessary.

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.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

There's nothing in life you can't accomplish, it's yours to have to be accomplished!

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

Headlines don't sell papes. Newsies sell papes.

You have the power to help people become winners.

Time doesn't go. Time stays. We go.

Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

We don't we agree that litigation reform to lower the cost of healthcare would be a good starting point?

If I had spent a quarter of the time that I spent manipulating my sexuality in front of a piano instead, I would be the most gifted piano player of my lifetime.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.