A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

A novel is just a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

He who laughs and loves is always rich

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better (than shooting in Tibet).

Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.

I believe I am entitled like any other person to have the presumption of innocence.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races.