Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

Teach the writer, not the writing.

Meanings come not from events themselves, but from what we bring to them.

Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

It's always funny to me when people meet me. They really think I'm from the East coast off top. When they get to talkin' to me, they go "Oh no, she's sooooo Southern"

He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

A mother's ability to provide for her children is not always tied to income, but rather to education.

The Trevor Project is committed to providing all young people, regardless of sexual identity, the opportunity to be heard and the encouragement to be themselves.

My parents were exclude from rights as farm workers, though that has to change.

Find something that makes you happy and don't let anyone take it away from you.

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action.