I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

If we begin to diligently care for the environment, it will greatly improve human health.

The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.

We need more fruitcakes in this world, and less bakers!

All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

People always want to have ownership and decision-making and autonomy.