Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

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

Rekindle spirit revives the soul

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

He laughs best who laughs last.

You should feel beautiful and you should feel safe. What you surround yourself with should bring you peace of mind and peace of spirit.

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

America already is great, but we are great because we are good, and we will respect one another, and we will work with one another, and we will celebrate our diversity.

Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

My wound existed before me; I was born to embody it.

Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.