In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

When a woman thinks her husband is a fool, her marriage is over. They may part in one year or ten; they may live together until death. But if she thinks he is a fool, she will not love him again.

I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you cannot know what back they wash against.

I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Avoid selling to dumb customers, there aren't enough left!

There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.

To be altarless is to be voiceless

You think the thing, draw the picture and then it happens.

Having faith is like having an extra energy source. It allows you to keep moving forward when all logic tells you, you can't.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds.

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.