I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

All children have gifts, some open them at different times.

Honey is sweet, "and so is knowledge, but knowledge is like the bee that made that sweet honey, you have to chase it through the pages of a book." (taken from "Thank you, Mr. Falker" )

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

You’d have to go through at least four different hugs to get from the kitchen to the front room. Those relatives!’.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!

A library is chamber of treasures.

Are parents always more ambitious for their children than they are for themselves?

Security is by far the city's predominant business.

No one has the right to force his or her way of life on anyone else.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.

I'm trying to be the best baseball player I can, to learn from what I see and get better every day.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak.

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Every offense is not a hate at first.