The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

-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.

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.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

Either conquer the night, or become one of its conquests.

Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

Service is a limitless opportunity, it is the reason why we breathe.

No one could make a choice without feeling afraid.

When some people retire, it's going to be mighty hard to be able to tell the difference.