"Is magic not enough to live for?"

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

Source : Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.18, St. Martin's Press

“Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.”

“I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.”

“New York is a city of conversations overheard, of people at the next restaurant table (micrometers away) checking your watch, of people reading the stories in your newspaper on the subway train.”

“[On her monologue as the thief 'Fontaine':] People always got things. People always want things. So I provide a service.”

“Sometimes Thomas Mackee will stick an earphone into my ear and ask me to listen to a song. When I get over the revulsion of putting something in my ear that's been in his, I sit back and let the music take over, and for a half hour there's something comforting about someone's heart beating at the same rhythm as mine.”

Source : Patrick Carman (2011). “The Land of Elyon #4: Stargazer”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.

“If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won't get the supply over the Net.”

“Everyone has a masculine and feminine side; masculine qualities and feminine qualities. We've all got these sides to ourselves. And clothes can tell that story. People would think this is very unsympathetic, but I would always say to people, you don't actually need to go through with an operation, can't you just be? You are who you are! But then people say to me, "Oh, you're really dreadful, how would you know?".”