A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

Muddy Waters

I'm not a great poetry fan.

Rupert Everett

Fools rush in where incumbents fear to tread.

Norman Ralph Augustine

Lightning makes no sound until it strikes.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Sir Winston Churchill

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Samuel Johnson

What's your dream and to what corner of the missions world will it take you?

Eleanor Roat

The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

Linus Pauling

As long as I breathe I hope. As long as I breathe I shall fight for the future, that radiant future, in which man, strong and beautiful, will become master of the drifting stream of his history and will direct it towards the boundless horizons of beauty, joy and happiness!

Leon Trotsky

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Isaac Watts

The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.

Roselle Mercier Montgomery