Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest.

Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

I always believed you could fix whatever problems.

All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes.

But as the world turns I learned life is hell, Livin' in the world no different from a cell...

The Nazgul they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death.

I am extremely sorry for the stress and confusion I have brought on the Braves organization.

You have to be daring and make something that doesn't look like anybody else.

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

Golf will grow so long as it’s fun.