I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction

-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.

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.

I always let the characters guide the stories. They really let me know what they want to say and what action they want to happen.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.

I'm so lost without you. Feeling lonely, scared & cold. I'm so lost without you. Tell me baby, when are you coming home?

In the end [of the "2012"], there were no ships, no water, no nothing. Only the interiors [were real]. Everything else had to be made, and that is always challenging.

I pride myself on breaking any box that anyone wants to put me in.

What is important is using one's talent, intellect and energy in order to gain an appreciation and affection for people and place.

I do begin to have bloody thoughts.