Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

I consider nature a vast chemical laboratory in which all kinds of composition and decompositions are formed.

By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a “superpower” built by American technology and skill.

God gives God-sized dreams to people with God-shaped hearts.

True love never runs smooth, that's what they say, but true love is worth all the pain.

There is no way forward without ending the occupation.

And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.