Every 'no' means you are that much closer to a 'yes.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

It's not like I'm this glamour diva who hands everything over and I just sit on my throne at home.

I do not think that the real reason why people accept religion has anything to do with argumentation. They accept religion on emotional grounds.

We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.

Anyone who seeks truth seeks God, whether or not he realizes it.

I challenge you. Be obsessed with improvement!

I became a Yankees fan for a few years. But now, I gotta say, I'm really rooting for the Red Sox.

I think I make shoes quite okay.

Whoever controls your energy controls your destiny. 100 percent renewable energy is 100 percent American.