Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

You know you are in pure love when you see only the beauty inside you and all around you.

Notice what your inner critic is saying, and issue a cease and desist! Regain control. Resist, and refuse to listen.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

Indeed, the most important product of knowledge is ignorance.

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

By putting these sort of lines around what ideas are proper or improper, we lose things.

I will live to piss in the open mouths or the open graves of my enemies, whichever comes first.

Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.