There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

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.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets, 
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover, 
yet you worry what people are saying.

I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.

Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I'm so smart I can negate any dream.

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth, my two front teeth, see my two front teeth!

The State shall make no law with respect to the establishment of education.

I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Why can't there be love that never gets tired?

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it.