Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.

Never explain yourself to anyone, because the one who likes you would not need it, and the one dislikes you wouldn't believe it.

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it.

Never make a decision in anger and never make a promise in happiness.

A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.

Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.

The worst of our faults is our interest in other people's faults.

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence.

Faith makes all things possible. Love makes them easy.

The matter with human beans, " the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.

If we speak poorly about that which we do well... people will assume we perform poorly!

We've all made mistakes that are similar in just trying to get by or make some money or feel good about ourselves.

With any character, I try to focus more on who the character is and how they got to be who they are.

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.