Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

I am not designed to come secondor third, I am designedto win.

I'm really too young to go out into the world alone, " he thought as he lay down.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

The 20th century was the century of war and blood. The 21st century is the century of dialogue.

The most romantic things are very small, kind gestures from people you love.

Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

I usually look in my eyes to tell the truth of how I'm feeling that day.