We are small but we are manyWe are many we are smallWe were here before you roseWe will be here when you fall

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

You know I love you, ' said the other mother flatly.'You have a very funny way of showing it, ' said Coraline.

Mirrors, ' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

We...we could be friends.'We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.

Be wise. Be brave. Be tricky.

Wherever we travel to, the wonderful people we meet become our family.

I have more love, success, and security than I could ever dream of.

Truth is the one thing in nature always consistent with itself, and it is the one guide given to us in steering on the ocean of fate.

No coach is more important than the Team

I just found over the years that it's very hard to change people's perception of what it is that you do.

A hug's a happy thing while a shrug's so often destructive.

Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.

A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Scientists don't believe anything.Scientists test things.