I was a sidelines child: never class president, never team captain, never the one with the most valentines in my box.

-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.

Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action.

In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.

Whenever we play the Twins, Torii Hunter has a major impact on defense. He tells the left fielder and the right fielder to take the day off and he covers the whole outfield.

The world is not so kind, people trap your mind.

The more you use the power within you, the more you will draw it to you.