There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

Prayer ain't weakened by distance.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Once I finish a song, it's done and it's on the album.

The middle and working classes are paying the debt that the financial markets created.

Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.