I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.

-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.

It is only when you understand that God is in everyone that you can appreciate and treat them differently

We always say that the times change, but truly speaking, the time remains the same, it is we who occur along the timelines.

You cannot water your own plant if you are waiting on other people's approval to do so. Stop living your one and only life waiting for validation, start seeking your own inner voice to guide you.

When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

. . . personal soundness is not an absence of problems but a way of reacting to them.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

My father had always called me Sam since the day I was born. He rarely ever called me Tiger. I would ask him, 'Why don't you ever call me Tiger?' He says, 'Well, you look more like a Sam.

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.