“There’s nothing the rich fear more than a poor person with ideas and charisma.”

“Have no fear of your ambitions.Stare them in the face ,fulfill them.Remember nothing is impossible...”

“It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people than to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.”

“Time can do all sorts of things. It’s almost like a magician. It can turn autumn into spring and babies into children, seeds into flowers and tadpoles into frogs, caterpillars into cocoons, and cocoons into butterflies. And life into death. There’s nothing that time can’t do. Except run backwards. That’s its trouble really, it can only go one way.”

“The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past.”

“I'm not sure that there's anything much more dangerous when it comes to faeryland than a magic mirror.”

“There’s pretty much no way for me to answer that without sounding like an asshole, so maybe you could do me a solid and not make me.”