Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

If you continue to entertain "boys", don't be upset when you can't find a "man".

Jesus doesn’t take sides; He takes over.

Baseball is just my job.

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

I thought my body was going to change so quickly with pregnancy that I'd freak out. But it was really gradual.

They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

Butterflies...flowers that fly and all but sing.

Compassion becomes an automatic reaction when you see all of humanity as one undivided and indivisible family.