Fear dims when you learn things.

-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.

The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come through them with great victory.

I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

I have been so deeply, profoundly lucky to have friends in my life that have always just loved me exactly as I am no matter what time period I'm in.

People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.

Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness.

I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.

Um, guys, I hate to interrupt whatever weirdness you two are partaking in, but we have a situation in here you might want to check on. (Phobos)

I don't have a dayjob or anything. And then, winter's [makes it] hard to do anything.