It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

In the depth of deep sadness, I was able to appreciate the beauty of life.

God is more than able to guide you in the right path. Keep trusting Him.

Accept that you're just a product, not a gift.

The poet drafts his work as a writer but edits it as a sculptor, with his pen as a chisel and his mind a hammer.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

The one who deals the mortal blow receives the mortal wound.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

Race differences show up early in life.