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

...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.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?

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.

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.