One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction.

The implication of this particular tale is: Trust strangers. Believe in magic.

End of story. ‘Happily ever after’ fell on everyone like a guillotine’s blade.

It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.

Then I discovered that being related is no guarantee of love!

Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?

It was as if-this is something I thought of only later, of course-she was gently peeling bcd one layer after another hat covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling.

Think innocently.Think intelligently.Think imaginatively.Think inventively.

Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

We are deceived by the appearance of right.

Because you want to keep an air of calm and cool.

The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.