Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

-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.

How to uplift others. It’s not a pie, it’s a cake. It’s not a ladder, it’s a bridge.

At what point do you no longer need other people to support the decisions you’ve made about your own reality?

Own your errors but never be consumed by them. If you are willing to learn they provide great opportunities for how not to do it a second time around.

Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.

The market alone can't solve our health-care woes.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

I'm really quiet at home. I don't speak that much. However, when I'm in public, I make sure to speak to everyone.

I'm sorry no one saved you.

I'm as corny as Kansas in August.

Open your hands if you want to be held.