Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about, " Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

People are more than just the way they look.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Believing takes practice.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

Everyone thinks to the extent of their own depravity.

My job is to make myself available to play to the best of my ability. Mentally, I've got to stay ready to play every day.

I just like having fun with my style and keeping it new.

We see that every external motion, act, gesture, whether voluntary or mechanical, organic or mental, is produced and preceded by internal feeling or emotion, will or volition, and thought or mind.

There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

The goals made such a difference to the way this game went

People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

I don't like producing. It's a lot of meetings you sit through that amount to nothing.

Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.