Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.

As human beings, our first commandment is:Something needs to happen

Overcoming challenges purifies you like gold to become bold.

And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

In the act of deciding what to eliminate, you place value on what's left behind.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

I still have a lot my Disney store art left and if I ever run out I'll just redraw it, because it will still be my original art and as a freelancer I own it.

Learn to love the questions themselves.