The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

When you're being told that you're good at something, you start to believe them and then you forget about your hopes and dreams.

My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.

Any given day is a second chance, after yesterday. Make the best of it today.

To create is to be divine.

You become what you think about most of the time.

Beauty crowds me till I die. Beauty, mercy have on me! Yet if I expire to-day Let it be in sight of thee!

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean - the more likely they are to do what they can to protect it.

The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.

I'm so used to people slagging me off. Since the beginning of my career I've been told I have no talent, I can't sing and I'm a one-hit wonder.

In choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, John McCain has chosen for the future.