Indecisiveness wears a person out.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

Business or profession?''I guess you'd call me a writer.'No profession, ' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.

What I can tell you is DO IT. Publish book one and get book two out as soon as possible. There are very few Harper Lee’s. Most of us are going to have to write a few books to get good at it.

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

I'm sure there's a range, but I think everyone can pretend.

Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society.

The more uncomfortable I feel, that's where I know the magic is.

Speed isn't everything; you gotta look cool on the touge too.

The quality of education that children receive early in life has a bearing on their later life that we may never fully understand.

I approach dancing from a different angle than those who begin dancing at 8 or 9. Those who have studied from the beginning never question anything.