I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

Everybody must work even if you are not working for money. You must work to actualize yourself.

Life is a DNA software system.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us first, for they were many and we were but few.

Believe it or not, perhaps I don't show it much, or well, but I think I like people.

When I first went to Africa, I thought that I was personally going to save the continent, if not the world.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

Meditation is my soul's soundless conversation with my inner pilot.

The iPhone has completely changed how I interact with information on the go. When I travel I leave the notebook at home.

[Donald Trump] will try to renegotiate the trade deals a little bit.