Lord, let me heed the angels you put in my path.

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.

When there is no peril in the fight, there is no glory in the triumph.

No king has a throne more beautiful than a bench covered with the autumn leaves!

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

Soccer, metaphor for war, at times turns into real war.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Hail fellow, well met.

I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for.

Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.