You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

Maybe it’s the quiet, ” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.

Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.

Our own story is even more important for us to know than history.

If you'd have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn't know what you were talking about. And then, they'd be against it.

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.

Allo, darlin’. Oi’m so glad to see it’s love at first sight for you, too.

As the meditation evolves, you attention passes into higher realms of consciousness.

Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

I somehow always found the right people on my own to jam with as well as playing with all my buddies. I didn't get to a point where I was auditioning for any bands.

My love affairs were more often about the fantasy than the actual person I was involved with.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.