The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Your reputation is what others think of you

Until the end of time, a winning positive attitude will always conquer all struggles, challenges and obstacles.

... that's how life should be, when one person loses heart, the other must have heart and courage enough for both.

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

I have friends, some of whom are spectacularly good writers, who really want someone to edit them. I don't register that impulse. It's like the impulse for wanting a dog.

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I dont let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

Did he just say--?" "Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did." "Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.

Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?