Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

The rest, is silence.

The clothes may vary, but the person is the same.

We nurture kind souls with kind deeds.

The Talmud says that “blessed is He who has created all these to serve me.” German politician Julius Streicher said, “It is an open secret that Jews do not work, but rather let others work for them.

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people's stories.

Worry is down payment on a problem that hasn't happened. Trust Jesus!

When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row.

The speed of time is one second per second.

More matter with less art.

My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.