It be better, I think, to climb out in search of something, instead of hating, what you're leaving.

-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.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting.

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.

A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested.

Religion supposed Heaven and Hell, the word of God, and sacraments, and twenty other circumstances which, taken seriously, are a wonderful check to wit and humour.

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

I was the first one in the gym, and the last one to leave.