I'd like to find whoever taught the Stump that extra work builds character and push him down the stairs," Neal told Kel at lunch.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean's pulse, and our own heartbeat.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

God’s not in the business of pampering His children. He’s in the business of perfecting them.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

I really think it's important for presidents to exit the stage gracefully.

Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

Focus like a laser, not a flashlight

My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless.