Imagination is a form of seeing

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.

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?

Nothing on earth can function successful outside the laws of the kingdom

True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Success tastes that much sweeter when you have people to share it with.

it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.