The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it.

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.