I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

Losing maturity in one’s fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that’s not always a bad thing.

She was better with animals than people. Give her a sick cat or dog, she was golden. Not so much with her own species.

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design.

Nonsense, when earnest, is impressive, and sometimes takes you in. If you are in a hurry, you occasionally mistake it for sense.

Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

We have a president [Barack Obama] that can't sit them [companies] around a table and get them to approve something.

I think that persistence and stubbornness and hard work are probably, at the end of the day, more important than the willingness to take a risk.

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.

To me, the lyrics mean more then the music, and that's the way it should always be.