But I'll always love you, and I'll always miss you and I'll never forget that It's okay to put dragons in the jungle and tears on a tiger

It can connect us to memories. It can influence our mood and our responses to problems we might face.

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop dreamers through teaching. I shall always be a dreamer.

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V. It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.

She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.

[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.

I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer who happens to write in English.

It has begun to occur to me that life is a stage I'm going through.

I can't hold a camera anymore.

Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation.

By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.

Courage is no good: It means not scaring others. Being brave Lets no one off the grave. Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Let us think, if we only got to heaven, what a sweet and easy thing it will be there to be always saying with the angels and the saints, Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus.

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!