Stick around long enough to be someone's friend. Because true friendship, once recognized, in its essence is effortless.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

To break yourself loose from the dominion, rulership and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That's what true adventure really is.

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

I'm not happy unless I've got a little bit of fear going.

I feel like I am what I am.

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.