It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.

Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.

If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat . . .

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying.

Teachers and leaders and storytellers and healers will grow from the earth like blessed flowers, blossoming outward with Divine guidance, to lead the rest.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.

I can't go out on stage and have glow sticks waved at me! That's not representative of anything!

If I don't believe the Word of God, why should you believe it? If we don't believe it, why should the world believe us?

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

God bless all the little children in the world.