I don't think there is any feeling I like more than the one that someone is glad to see me. —Connor Kane

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Indecisiveness wears a person out.

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof.

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender

people can be creul, people can be mean, what they say about us is not true it makes it there opinion, and it doesnt mean thats how the rest of the world see's it.

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.

If this inner and critical voice has kept you safe for many years as your inner voice of authority, you may end up not being able to hear the real voice of God.

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

The only thing a title can buy is a little time-either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it.

I reflect back on my mom's journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it out tremendously. I reflect back on that a lot.

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.