The closest I can get to describing what happens is that voices come to me. I feel like I'm accessing something that is deeper and richer than me.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

I wish for adventure.I wish to matter.I wish for a home.

You can have all the titles in the world but if you cannot treat others as you would yourself, you have no love to give!

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.

As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can't take proper care of too many things. That's why I want to cherish properly the things I love.

And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory.

Photography isn't about seeing, it's about feeling. If I don't have some kind of feeling for what I'm shooting, how can I expect the person who looks at it to feel anything?

The basically simple things are best, whether it's automobiles or diets or philosophy.

I'm well known because I do music at a professional level, and a certain magnitude.

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity-it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.