She said fear is just a flashlight that helps you find your courage.

Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them.

I learned that courage and fear always come as a pair. If you've gone one inside you, you've surely got the other.

My voice is never much louder than a ripple, but even small voices sound loud when you talk about things that matter.

Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.

Yesterday, I got lost.You did too.So what?People get lost all the time.It's just a matter of finding yourself, and treasuring that.

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.

He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

If children do not understand the Constitution, they cannot understand how our government functions, or what their rights and responsibilities are as citizens of the United States.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this.

I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes.

Speak not through the positive mind or the negative mind, but from the neutral mind.

Your house is your first small business. It's where your investment is and [where] our greatest asset is.