It was all cheese and applause.

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.

...awkward passion is so often so very much more admirable than mere achievement.

He thought he’d lived through everything. Only now did he realise he’d merely existed.

After self-love the second best gift you could ever give yourself is self-discipline.

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Most of the things that make you angry are of very small consequence. And what a terrible price you are paying for your anger.

Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.

Good and evil, right and wrong were invented for the ordinary average man, the inferior man, because he needs them.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

Tomorrow is a thief of pleasure.

That's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a bunch of fun-loving dopes.