Magic, " her mother said, "is a kind of hope. And wishes are like dreams. When we have them, we can make things change. Without, we stay the same.

You don’t have to accept every advice. You must carefully think about it in your quiet moment.

Not every emotion deserves the same attention

Princess, princess, youngest daughter, Open up and let me in!Or else your promise by the waterIsn’t worth a rusty pin.Keep your promise, royal daughter, Open up and let me in!

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.