It's the choosing that's important, isn't it?

-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.

If I had a dream or a goal… then maybe I would be able to overcome the obstacles in my way.

There is no love that is not self-love

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

Be valyaunt, but not too venturous. Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly.

Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.