There are as many stories to be told as there are people to tell them about; only the mean-spirited would consider there to be a competition at all.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

Even the kindest saint does have their own adversary

If I breathe, what will my heart think?If I vomit, what will my soul think?

No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else.

But I still show up for gentleman practice in the company of lead dancers, hoping their grace will get stuck in my shoes.

Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it.

If the General Government should be left dependent on the State Legislatures, it would be happy for us if we had never met in this room.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

I have anonymously helped many thousands