Reading is the most important way to prepare for life.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

Awareness is a great neutralizer of negative emotions." Living Beyond the Five Senses

There is always time to die, but never time to live.

Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity.

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired.

You have to gain respect from your teammates. You have to earn it.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.