And age was just a trait, like the color of your hair, or the amount of freckles on your skin.

To not do what you can to protect someone, that's cowardly.

She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.

Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

life's better with girls. boys need girls.

But Tik Tok believes everything's circular, including men and women. He says nature seems to go around and around, and that we all have bits of everything.

Do you think magic exists if it can be explained?

Everyone will think I'm ugly."Tik Tok smiled. "That's true. But we are a small village. We have narrow tastes. There's no telling who else in the world would think you're beautiful.

It was almost as if he was giving her his silence, so that all of her anger had a place to go.

Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn’t happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn’t seem broken at all.

Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.

If you are greeted then return the greetings more warmly. If you are favored, then repay the obligation manifold; but he who takes the initiative will always excel in merit.

Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

Silverstream: You idiot!!! What are you doing in my territory??? Graystripe:...Drowning? Silverstream: Can't you do that in your own territory? Graystripe: Ah, but who would rescue me there?

Imperialism leaves behind germs of rot which we must clinically detect and remove from our land but from our minds as well.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ.

We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

All human activities, professions, programs, and institutions must henceforth be judged primarily by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually enhancing human/Earth relationship.

Life's a pudding full of plums.