These were the tales that echoed in the head long after the books that contained them were cast aside.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.

The stories in books hate the stories contained in newspapers.

Story!" The dwarf snorted. "You'll be talking about "happily ever after" next. Do we look happy? There's no happily ever after for us. Miserabily ever after, more like.

We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full need of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away.

Trusted relationships are the essence of a brand

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

I've seen enough cowboys in my life to know I don't want one for a husband."...Victoria"Every good man I know is a cowboy."...ColtPromises Kept

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation.

If youre alive and breathing, you can still become everything God has created you to be.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future

The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.