Incidentally, the world is magical. Magic is simply what's off our human scale... at the moment.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

And the rain drops kept falling like the sweetest musicleaving tears on the glass, which is what music does to memost of the timebut silence too. and rain.

Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.

I like trendy clothes just like everybody else does.

Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher.

(about his terrible attempt at making a sandwich) It's more difficult than it looks. (Artemis Fowl)

Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization.

Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.

Anything which draws attention to me because I am so attractive.