The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

People will reveal themselves to you. In single moments they show you what they are.

I relish my life. It’s the one I have. It’s difficult, beautiful, painful, full of laughter, passing strange. Whatever else it is, whatever it brings – it’s mine.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness

Pity melts the mind to love.

Somebody is always hiding something.

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

I've been a golden boy for too long.

As thou thinkest, so art thou.