Oh my God!” Sam said again, his voice shaking. I’ve given birth to something inhuman, Phoebe thought. A lamprey with row after row of teeth.

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.

All leadership begins from inside a person and must be developed and grown as they grow into emerging and enduring leaders

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen few in pursuit of the goal.

Somebody scoffed, Oh, you'll never to that - At least no one ever has done it; But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.

When you're actually filming, there are times when you get access to places you'd never get to see.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

You have to live before you die, or you'll die before you live.

If you see the good in others and cover their defects with your love, they will follow you. If you see only weaknesses in others, your spirituality will be ruined.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.