Do you know that I no longer see colors?"Jonas's heart broke.

-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.

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

The old cross slew men; the new cross entertains them. The old cross condemned; the new cross amuses. The old cross destroyed confidence in the flesh; the new cross encourages it.

People have paid for content. They always have.

I've missed half or two-thirds of my children's lives.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

Obama wants to ruin America. Hillary [Clinton]too.

Old age is better for women than for men. First of all, they have less far to fall, since their lives are more mediocre than those of most men.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.