Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit

Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.

A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

People are more than just the way they look.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Believing takes practice.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own.

I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication.-Aunt Beast

Freedom wanders in the landscape of the mind, and nourishes the deepest yearnings of the soul.

"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

I never suffered from the absence of a father. On the contrary, as a child I was more inclined to see men as a disturbing factor. It made things difficult for me when I started working as a director.

What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.

If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Hurry up, please, its time.