The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

-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.

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

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.

Pray about everything you want.

I sat and reflected on the situation I had facedI needed answers to the questions I still, didnt have the courage to ask...But I need to know, How was this to be apart of my destiny?

Never quit on life, keep fighting your way through it.

embrace vulnerability

The will was of Zeus, the hand of Hephaestus.

As in roulette, same is true of the stock trader, who will find that the expense of trading weights the dice heavily against him.

Task performed by an unintelligent person should not be rated high.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.