Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Death truly does have life, and walks with and lives through us everyday.

When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.

We must resist in-group thinking and practice seeing every soul as a brother or sister in a larger grouping of humans on earth.

Taxes are a universal burden in moral as well as in civil life. There is not a pleasure, social or otherwise, which is not assessed by fate at its full value!

Vegas is everything that's right with America. You can do whatever you want, 24 hours a day. They've effectively legalized everything there.

To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.

Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

It isn't that inspiration doesn't exist, but it comes only with writing.

I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing the lyrics out very clearly.