Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

What happens to you here is forever.

I think there was a petition online to get me involved in Doctor Who. Im not a Doctor Who fanatic, but I am a Steven Moffat fanatic.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

I know that Philadelphians hate New York actors passing off New York accents as Philadelphian when they are quite different.

to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

The guy [Bill Clinton] was a known, let's say, "raconteur."

I don't know all the certain words to word it.