It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

-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.

The antidote to joy is dread.

The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.

There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.

Hope is the first thing to take some sort of action.

You're never able to please everybody, especially when you're transforming a country like Russia.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

The world and man are identical. This is why racism is the most stupid thing in the world.

If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.