“Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!”

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.

Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

You must accept the reality of other people.

You must accept the reality of other people.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Size is no guarantee of power.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

The fifth force was the magic of time, the greatest of all the magics.

Magic is really only the utilization of the entire spectrum of the senses.

A little magic can take you a long way.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.