The season of evil, " I echoed. "Protect your soul.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

Writing will be like a journey, every word a footstep that takes me further into undiscovered land.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

I’m glad to be eating the bread of freedom even if it does taste like sponge buttered with greasy salt.

Improvement is always on the schedule for tomorrow. Change is always taking place some time in the future. It’s human nature.

Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

Well, I lost my virginity in a car. But it wasn't a very nice one.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion — or you shall learn nothing.

Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.

We should be rolling in the dirt, gardening, wrestling with some brambles and skinning animals for supper. These are important immune system builders.