Maybe it’s the quiet, ” Aedan resumed. “Let’s me think, or maybe it’s the opposite of normal thinking, more like untangling. I’m comfortable in those spots.

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.

You!' Skeet bellowed.When uttered with just the right tone, this is the universal name for any boy. Accordingly, all heads snapped towards the angry master.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer...A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

A mystery is so much more exciting than a wrapped up answer, wouldn’t you say? A mystery carries on but an answer just ends.

The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.

Are you planning to kiss me?' Aedan asked.'No.' Emroy wrinkled a pimply nose.'Then why are you standing so close?' Aedan's tone was perfect innocence.

Don't Believe Everything You Think!

We can't win the world with weapons or violence.We can win the world with love and practice of nonviolence.

If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

National Geographic contacted me about getting on their label, and I was like, 'Wow, I want to be label mates with the sharks and lemurs!'

Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

For the Christian mystics, detachment meant to leave attachment so that God could enter you and take over completely and you could climb the ladder to their heaven. Kind of crazy, but what the hell?

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.

Good or Bad? Good. That's what I thought