It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.

The trains always arrive at your station. The question is which one to take?

Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.

We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

Pay attention. Don't just stagger through the day.

Christianity is part of the law of England.

Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.

Sometimes my grief is overwhelming, and even though I understand that we will never see each other again, there is a part of me that wants to hold on to you forever.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.