Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

-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.

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.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes.

Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another.

Our dreams are luminous, a cast fire upon the world. Morning arrives and that's it. Sunlight darkens the earth.

I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.

The root of prayer is interior silence.