The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.

-a whole world can lie before someone, if love is there when one wakes.

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.

Take pride in your pain; you are stronger than those who have none

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

Every story of conversion is a story of blessed defeat.

Sometimes it's not that you "fell out of love" it's that you finally came to the realization that you were never truly "in love" to begin with.

My parents were incredibly inclusive.

If you're going to answer the call and you're going to transform and you're going to change, get ready. It is not a day at the beach.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

I was moved no end by the work of LaVern Baker.

The human being holds a universe within, filled with overlapping frequencies, and the result is a symphony of cosmic proportions.

In all the illusions, you're the only truth that I need

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

We've still got half of the world that don't know what I look like.