. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven. And in the darkness David closed his eyes, as all that was lost was found again.

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.

This world is full of broken things: broken hearts, broken promises, broken people.

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

You can't prove that something doesn't exist. You can only prove that something does exist.

‎"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly." "really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).

They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of homicidal, class-obsessed small people, they were really rather good fun.

Each man dreams his own heaven.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

We create our work for children not because they're "cute, " but because they're human beings, deserving of respect.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?

An individual who expresses high confidence probably has a good story, which may or may not be true.

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.

Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest.