Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.

You have to treat yourself every once in a while, get to the fun stuff!

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Even with painting, even abstract paintings, you need the incoming of, light on the canvas.

No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.