Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

To be human is to be in a story.

Families hold each other in an iron grip of definition. One must break the grip, somehow.

The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

CONSIDER THIS When things do go wrong, ask yourself whether you could have prevented it by being unhappy.

I said that i would try to win, but to win for her.

One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour.

I wake up every day with a smile on my face.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

As many as are the difficulties which Virtue has to encounter in this world, her force is yet superior.

Shawn Michaels is quite simply the greatest performer in WWE history.

I need to learn every day.

Whereas when you perform, the song is done. The music is out. People know it already. You can interpret it differently, the band can perform it differently, so I like the freedom of performing.