In the winter, the snow had become glittery fairy dust that had given all the creatures of the meadow warm clothes and a fire to help them endure the winter.

It was a glorious illusion and she fell asleep before it ended.

You are never too old to have an active imagination.

We have overcome heartaches by being kind to others and by supporting each other.

I think magic is hard for most people to believe in, because our lives are typically without it. Sometimes the supernatural is disguised behind other things like bravery.

... but in the winter they were ensconced in a white powder of sparkling snow.

Elle wondered if heart could smile, because she felt that her joy reached her inner being.

She didn't use any artificial light, but let the glow from the silver moon in the north and the periwinkle moon in the south to guide her.

The air had a cool crispness to it and the leaves on the trees had begun turning yellow and red.

Every adversity is the fuel for the soul. The greatest self-realization occurs during the greatest adversity.

I think what I really want to do [is] do something charitable.

Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

Fire-wood makes you warm three times; first collecting it, secondly shifting it and third when you burn it.

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain.

Any place that manufactures humans into weapons is going to piss off a couple members of X-Force. I always want a personal reason for why these characters take on these missions.

Since the revolution of the 18th century, America has basically had an ideology of liberal democracy and constitutionalism.

History is philosophy teaching by experience.