It is a mother's duty to teach her daughters about the uses of blood, particularly a magical daughter.

What are acquaintance for, if not to supply the pleasures of gossip?

... it is strange to know you would be cast off by the people who greet you so warmly, if they knew the whole truth about you.

Are you going? What shall you wear?""I shall go in what I am standing in, " said Mak Genggang. "A witch is always appropriate whatever her attire.

No single nation should pick and choose which nations holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons.

Canada is like a nice family living over a biker bar . . . They keep telling the downstairs neighbors to keep down the noise, people are trying to sleep.

A little allegory of the soul - wherever it hides, God will find it.

You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

With prior Republican nominees for president, I disagreed with them on politics, policies, principles, but I never questioned their fitness to serve. Donald Trump is different.

Age had taught him patience. Youth had taught me to get frustrated at the lack of progress.

The arts can enrich all of us in this nation as individuals. The arts can enrich all of our communities and the country. And the arts can connect us to each other like nothing else can.

That was my gift . . . having the ability to put certain guys together that would create a chemistry and then letting them go; letting them play what they knew, and above it.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).