Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.

To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.

The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.

I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

The secret of my vigor and activity is that I have managed to have a lot of fun.

Great wisdom not applied to action and behavior is meaningless data.

Dearest brothers and sisters who are so persecuted, I know how much you suffer, I know that you are stripped of everything. I am with you in the faith of the one who has conquered evil!

People ask me if I'm afraid of getting typecast, but you can't be afraid of that. It's really not up to you. I'm getting other parts that aren't vampires.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.