Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.