Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.

I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Oversight versus Insight: Most of us want to oversee the situation without insight of the situation. Knowledge is King.

Shane met him owing to the storybooks she studied to discover what attributes made one princessly—this wasn't technically a word, but she felt there should be equity in adjectives if not in life.

Witches release the chapters of the past, which invites the novels of the future.

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

It's difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results!

There are many words and definitions I have never lost. But some I am only just beginning to truly understand.

I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.

How about that amigo? I just come over to see my friends and I win ze bloody championship.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.