Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness in your life.

our finger prints dont fade from the lives we touch

Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?

The truth will make you odd.

Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom

Shane waved a hand. “Please, we know that all ittakes to get into your pants is a Hot Pocket and aNetFlix rental.

There is only one thing better than making a new friend and that is keeping an old one.

It is so important to be really true to yourself in design, and I am.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe you're confusing your emotions.

All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.