Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

-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.

The world grows ever complex. More urban. Less peaceful.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.

It is important to bear in mind that political campaigns are designed by the same people who sell toothpaste and cars.

Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

I like comedy, I love it very much, I love laughing.

I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since Ive been in Downton Abbey, which has made me much more fashion conscious.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

Heaven for me is hidden in a little Host Where Jesus, my Spouse, is veiled for love. I go to that Divine Furnace to draw out life, And there my Sweet Saviour listens to me night and day.