Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now

You are most powerful when you are most silent.

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If we could all pull it off, I think all three of us would like to do another.

I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.

Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.

All it takes is a single moment.

Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.

A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands

Live free, dream loud, be inspired, find your power.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

Feeling free, let us fly, into the boundless, beyond the sky, for we were born to never die.

I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.