“A blessing changes the atmosphere. If you say something kind like, How about being my partner at the annual Spring Fling Dance Contest?, its going to affect the situation. If you say something mean...”

“This magic does not work with anger.”

“Remember your magic.”

“We all know what we have to do what the inkling provokes us. We have to do the right thing. We have to make that extra push out of bed, or off the sofa. We must just do it.”

“No time for monsters.”

“Don't write your child's pages. Turn them with love.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”

“I believe in the immeasurable power of love that true love can endure any circumstance and reach across any distance.”

“The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley.”

“We are all prisoners of circumstance at one point or another.”

“A blessing changes the atmosphere. If you say something kind like, How about being my partner at the annual Spring Fling Dance Contest?, its going to affect the situation. If you say something mean...”

“I guess I need to leave it up to the Great Magician, as Harry would say.”

“Remember your magic.”