“We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.”

“Mahoney: "Thirty-seven seconds. Great, well done; now we wait."Mr. Magorium: "No, we breathe, we pulse, we regenerate. our hearts beat, our minds create, our souls ingest. Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime.”

“This is the gift of humanity: that it is claimed by the self. None of us...are human unless and until we claim it for ourselves. But nothing can stop that claiming - not the eight million gods nor the spirits nor ghosts. Nothing but ourselves, anyway.And our lives become the poems we were born to tell.”

“It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.”

“We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.”

“We are what we are and nothing we can do will change the way we feel.”