The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Change is a good thing. It's good to have a fresh start, even if it's painful sometimes.

People's character will be revealed in difficult situations, whether they are a loser or a winner.

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes.

Religion is the sole technique for the validating of values.

Somewhere at the heart of the universe sounds the true mystic note: Me.

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.