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.

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.

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.

We're so quick to cut away pieces of ourselves to suit a particular relationship, a job, a circle of friends, incessantly editing who we are until we fit in.

George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.

Education is important not because it helps you to get a job, but because it opens the window of the mind through which we can see the beauty of life.

Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.

What is lacking in India are decent social services. The health service is a disaster. Education is a disaster.

I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.

The more we walk the path first while becoming last and least in our organizations, the more we become like the Alpha and Omega whom we long to serve.

There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

When you meet people, show real appreciation, then genuine curiosity.

Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.