Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.

Without passion everything lame in this life.

I believe in my sacred self.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

Liberation movements - operating surreptitiously and conspiratorially - thrive on discipline and suspicion, and punish deviation or dissent.

Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him: Take the thanks of a boy.

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

You're getting your weird all over me.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!