He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

-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.

Gamitin ang puso para alagaan ang taong malapit sayo. Gamitin ang utakpara alagaan ang sarili mo.

Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do

What are you thinking?” I ask.“That I wish this was my home, too.” I have nothing to say to this, so I kiss him instead.

True love comes from the heart and not from the words.

Amazing what the British do with language; the nuances of politeness. The world's great diplomats, surely.

All it takes are a few simple outfits. And there's one secret - The Simpler The Better

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrants' worst enemies.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

I believe your attitude is the most important choice you can make.