I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

Everyone become a creation of their environment.

I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best.

When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women.

I can not be mistaken - what I say and do is historical.I follow my life with the precision and security of a sleep walker

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage.

Adults ask questions as a child does. When you stop wondering, you might as well put your rocker on the front porch and call it a day.

I do believe there is enormous possibility to change this world.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.