The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

Every now and then I like to do as I'm told, just to confuse people.

Because of what Jesus Christ did for us through His cross and resurrection, we know that we have hope for the future.

The point is not how we use a tool, but how it uses us.

New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

Once I leave this earth, I know I've done something that will continue to help others.

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.