It was a star, " Mrs. Whatsit said sadly. "A star giving up its life in battle with the Thing. It won, oh, yes, my children, it won. But it lost its life in the winning.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

People are more than just the way they look.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Believing takes practice.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

I did not know then that words and music are more deadly than any spear.

Another very important aspect of the Protestant teachings is that money is simply a by-product, a natural consequence, a compensation, it is never the goal.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

We live on a finite planet. We have finite resources, and we're running out of good, arable land.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

I'm having bigger problems when I'm writing.

I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting, because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative.