People are usually surprised to hear this, but I don't really read children's books.

I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives.

One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood.

Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.

She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.

I didn't start out writing to give children hope, but I'm glad some of them found it.

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea.

I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind.

Education and Training For Life

Embrace contradictions for they make upall of life:You will eternally be looking for yourself andseeking ways to lose yourself.

The mind can never foresee its own advance

Sometimes, we can be our worst enemy. That our mind is capable of twisting and turning things, and taking us to really dark places.

But mostly because he could be himself - never needing to bend.

As a physician specializing in nutrition, my priority is to the health of the public.

God who preceded all existence is a refuge.

I will march on in the path of nature till my legs sink under me, and then I shall be at rest, and expire into that air which has given me my daily breath.

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it