What is magic?There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

The sky is full of dreams, but you don't know how to fly.

The Killers

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy;The books that people talk about we never can recall;And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

Carolyn Wells, On Books

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust.

Piers Paul Read

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Leopold Von Ranke

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Ron Wyden

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Thornton Wilder

It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.

Stirling Moss

Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.

Zig Ziglar

We must do all we can...Use all our powers to help save Tibet!Humanity will regret it...if we don't!

Timothy Pina

I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.

Jeff Healey

Real love should draw no blood from the loved and buckets from the lover.

Emily Maguire