[He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

When dreams become words to share with others - amazing things can happen.

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.

I grew up in a family of secrets there was a lot of pathology in the family.

He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others

You are perfect, whole and complete. You needn't add anything to yourself to experience your true power.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

If I am good, people compliments me that my voice is like a CD, but whenever my voice condition is not as well and do some mistakes....I tend to sacrifice myself for my next album.

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God.

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.