Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

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.

As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.

A quarrel between friends when made up adds a new tie to friendship as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.

I love working on cars.

Young people believe that regret is something you will never feel if you simply do as you please, but sometimes it is a matter of degree.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

The thirteenth rule of radical tactics: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.