Language helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.

Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become.

Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.

It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.

Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the one's that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?

We do not merely destroy our enemies

... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.

I do love competence in a man.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being

I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.