Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

There is but one good

It's just better to be yourself than to try to be some version of what you think the other person wants.

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

My sincere desire is to write in a style that is simple enough for a child to understand, yet powerful enough to change lives.

I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.

There's no end to the process of learning about the Toyota Way. I don't think I have a complete understanding even today, and I have worked for the company for 43 years.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

No matter what's happening in your life, you can change the trajectory of events by closing your eyes, reviewing your thought and behavior, and sending love wherever you've been withholding it.

A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.