never ask the tight-rope walker how he keeps his balance. if he stops to think about it, he falls off

Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.

Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company, but they did like to know where all the other witches were, just in case they needed them.

This book had two authors, and they were both the same person.

It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends.

You can't not help people just because they're stupid or forgetful or unpleasant... If I don't help them, who will?

Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.

Yes, of course, the whole idea is utterly inane, but to let its predictable inanities blind you to its truly fabulous and breathtaking aspects is to do both oneself and the genre a disservice.

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world.

I always felt I wasn't completely American and I wasn't completely British: there was a feeling of having my feet in both places.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

Ocean waters..oceans deep..Serious poets never sleep.

I wasn't really that interested in objects. I was interested in ideas.

I moved out eventually of the White House and moved into a townhouse with a group of girls while I was in college.

Before the moon I am, what a woman is, a woman of power, a woman's power, deeper than the roots of trees, deeper than the roots of islands, older than the Making, older than the moon.