I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.

I have to keep facing the darkness. If I stand tall and face the thing I fear, I have a chance to conquer it. If I just keep dodging and hiding it will conquer me.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.

I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.

Artists have to believe in the merit of their own work and persevere whether they receive public recognition or not, but it's ever so nice when someone says, "Job well done"!

I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.

I am a little bit of everything that I´ve ever read or said.

Be awesome! Be the cause of someone's smile.

TV makes it so easy to postpone living for another half hour.

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

The only way to live a long life is in a state of constant boredom.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Be who you are. If you're comfortable leading, you're comfortable. And if you're not, it's OK.

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

Deism, historically, produces atheism. First you make God a landlord, then an absent landlord, then he becomes simply absent.

Aside from Donald Trump, polls find [Hillary] Clinton to be the least-liked presidential candidate in recent history.