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

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

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.

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

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.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.

The heart the heart the heart how it thrives on hate.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

So many things that seemed crucial and excruciatingly hard ended and then didn't matter anymore, forever after

The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.

I was only aggressive with my game play. I was not aggressive with people. My personality was just as humble as I can be out there.