I’m working on another Lyra book right now – it’s called The Book of Dust.“It’s going very well and it will be finished when I write the words ‘The End’.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

SINK OR SWIM ALERTFolks with low self-esteem will push you under to save their drowning egosKamil Ali

There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

I'd never be unfaithful to my wife for the reason that I love my house very much.

The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.

Racism is a form of insanity. Human beings became racist when they started talking. Speech has a lot to do with it.

Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.

I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!