There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

There must come a time when the bullets will run out

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.

And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.

I keep thinkingThat poetry is something else:A form of love that exists only in silence, In a secret place between two people, Almost always between two strangers

A thought can be said in hundred different ways but only one of them will be very effective and popular: The one which has been said in the simplest and clearest way!

I don't think it's that difficult to administer. I'm sure a sensible solution can be found.

My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.

Ending poverty and ensuring sustainability are the defining challenges of our time. Energy is central to both of them.

The talent of insinuation is more useful than that of persuasion, as everybody is open to insinuation, but scarce any to persuasion.

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

All desire but that of doing God's holy will has been extinguished in me.

Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.

I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.