My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.

When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

If the farmer is rich, then so is the nation.

Life is choices...and sometimes other people's choices even more than your own.

Too often, we miss out on opportunities in this life because we were too busy waiting for them to fall into our lap that we missed them tapping on our shoulder.

One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue.

There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.

I think that when I first suggested the idea that knowledge should be viewed as a natural kind, many people thought this was just crazy.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.