I have learned over the course of my many years that it is a bad idea, usually, to investigate piteous weeping but always a fine thing to look into a giggle.

-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.

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

commitment stays on, both in good and in bad, for better for worste

He’s lost it. Our son is insane. Or on drugs. Or maybe not on enough drugs.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

I could not prove the Years had feet-/Yet confident they run.

I think relationships are very difficult. It's very easy to get swept away with excitement, glamour, and passion. I think the trick is to look for friendship rather than passion.

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

Questions for questions. You're a man who's spent time at court.

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.