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Either you are happening to this world or this world is happening to you … you have to make a choice.

There’s never been a more interesting time to be confused about almost everything in the news.

Friends are always telling me I have too many trees. Obviously friends like these are expendable.

Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

I believe in my fellow citizens. Our headlines are splashed with crime. Yet for every criminal, there are ten thousand honest, decent, kindly men. If it were not so, no child would live to grow up. Business could not go on from day to day. Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.

If you don't fix the road, you can't fix the creek.

I will tell you the absolute secret of magic, at the most honest level. The secret of magic is you would not be willing to work as hard as we are, and that’s the whole secret.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

I lived my dream, some days it was a nightmare.

It’s not about money at all. We made that up. How come of all the creatures … only one of them is dumb enough to pay rent.

I need no axe to be a dwarf, nor do I need to hate trolls. What kind of creature defines itself by hatred?

By pruning, we speed up the process and “play the game” of the forest.

So you go out and plant some native trees, and that turns human beings into what we're supposed to be, which is stewards and managers of the land rather than single-use occupants.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

These loaves were baked in brick ovens, out of doors, and some of them looked as big as peck measures. A slice cut from one of them and smeared thick with that delicious apple butter was a feast fit for gods or men.

Well done is better than well said.

Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I don’t know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense.

Look, you’re a human being, and you’ve got a certain amount of guts – use it as a means of scaling the ladders of achieving the heights. Love and God will take care of themselves. First be yourself, dammit, and stop talking about things you have no understanding of.

Be persistent. Keep coming back. Be the case of the lice in the kindergarten class — they can't get rid of you.

If flowers heal us, shouldn’t we also try to heal flowers?

The thing you've got to remember, is that humour is delayed fear, laughter is delayed fear.

I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

For the oppressed, peace is the absence of oppression. For the oppressor, peace is the absence of resistance.

Biology is the first half of the periodic table coming to life. Technology is the second half of the periodic table coming to life.

It’s always our leaders who want to fight, never the people.