The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly

Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you, " said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.

Anything can be changed by those who have the courage to blaze their own path.

An optimist sees rainbows when there is rain.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

As on many mornings in Marin, there is this sly strip of fog - water in it's most mystical incarnation - slithering over, around, and through the hills, making everything look ancient and unsolved.

America's image throughout the world is very bad.

The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.

Don't think about what the market's going to do; you have absolutely no control over that. Think about what you're going to do if it gets there.