Whatever can die is beautiful — more beautiful than a unicorn, who lives forever, and who is the most beautiful creature in the world. Do you understand me?

The last unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But I am a cat, and no cat anywhere ever gave anyone a straight answer.

The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.

My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.

- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.

..no meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

You is.Within Me!We are ONE.

To be inactive while engaged in activity is the real inactivity (non-doership)!

Judgement is always based on experience and sometimes you will battle a person's history first, before commonsense will ever win the war.

Smile in front of the queen?" she said with a feigned gasp of disapproval. 'Surely that's not allowed!

Never bet the devil your head.

Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

At the end of the block where I used to live in Coconut Grove in Miami, there's a swampy area, a no-name alcove with a little mangrove estuary. It's beautiful.

Choose, but don't want.