Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.

Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it.

Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?

Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!

I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.

all children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.

Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?

When failure knocks on your door, ignore it.When defeat bangs on your door, lock it.When success knocks on your door, answer it.When greatness knocks on your door, seize it.

How one can live without being able to judge oneself, criticize what one has accomplished, and still enjoy what one does, is unimaginable to me.

Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things.

Life is a succession of afflictions for the heart.

If you think customers are impatient in New York, wait to you see how impatient they are here in L.A.

The Muslim Brotherhood is a global movement whose members cooperate with each other throughout the world, based on the same religious worldview - the spread of Islam, until it rules the world.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Guard the portals of your mind.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.