Look inside yourself for the answers - you're the only one who knows what's best for you. Everybody else is only guessing.

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.

One of the greatest challenge in life is not having an attitude but knowing or accepting that you have one

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

Have you ever heard someone say 'I shouldn't have trusted my intuition'?

The world is terribly apt to take people at their own valuation.

The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses.

We have had no specific or credible threats, but we don't take that as any kind of comfort. We know we need to be ready and we know that, that vigilance is the price of freedom.

Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.

I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.