If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?

In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

We're here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people through the dark.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

We're born with success. It is only others who point out our failures, and what they attribute to us as failure.

I always wore sneakers when I wanted to. It was always about being comfortable and being myself.

Children are a quality of life ... when our children are happy, then we are better as human beings.

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

Stars don't beg the sky to shine.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

Canadians still spend so much time discussing what it means to be Canadian.

Now is the time to take back your energy, your power, and your peace.

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

If you know exactly what you're going to do, what's the good in doing it?

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.