Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.

Imagination is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored.

Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.

It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun.

She is our moon. Our tidal pull. She is the rich deep beneath the sea, the buried treasure, the expression in the owl's eye, the perfume in the wild rose. She is what the water says when it moves.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

Love and anger are like land and sea: They meet at many different places.

That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.

When you put your hands and mind and heart into the knowing of a thing ... there is no room in you for fear.

Ако животните имаха разум, те също биха вършили глупости като хората.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.

Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.

I'm going to capitalize on everything I can.

History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

Do not too many believe no zeal to be spiritual but what is censorious or vindictive? Whereas no zeal is spiritual that is not also charitable.