If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.

That's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress, ' said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. 'Ye were one jock short, ' he added helpfully.

As far as she could see, children mostly argued, shouted, ran around very fast, laughed loudly, picked their noses, got dirty and sulked.

And people think she killed him?" said Miss Tick. She sighed. "They probably think she cooked him in the oven, or somet

The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

Accursed be he that first invented war.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.

I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.

Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

Some of my favorite places I have been in my life exist only in dreams.

I am not a composer of music; I sing pieces which have been written for me which gives me bigger freedom to search for pieces I want to record.