Todo o reino de Fantasia assenta-se sobre alicerces de sonhos esquecidos." A História Sem Fim(The whole kingdom of Fantasy sits upon foundations of forgotten dreams - Endless Story).

Every real story is a never ending story.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

You must let what happens happen. Everything must be equal in your eyes, good and evil, beautiful and ugly, foolish and wise.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

My will can control anything that’s empty.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

There were thousands and thousands of forms of joy in the world, but that all were essentially one and the same, namely, the joy of being able to love.

Wishes cannot be summoned up or kept away at will. They come from deeper within us than good or bad intentions. And they spring up unannounced.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

You are not who you think.You're not even the thinker.You are the one conscious of the thought.

[T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered.

Silence is the last thing the world will ever hear from me.

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter that's it. It's a task I love.

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

The hardest part about moving from nice California weather was the freezing cold New York.

All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.