It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

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.

Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy.

I'm supposed to feel like it’s such a great apartment, but I don’t. It’s the right price, there are no bugs and it’s got a great view, but it’s the lair of Satan...

...knowing what o'clock it is gives ye the illusion that ye have some control over your circumstances.

What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.

I've retired so many times now it's getting to be a habit.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

The real solution to the problem of poverty consists in finding how to increase the employment and earning power of the poor.

Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.