They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

So what's the deal with you and my sister?" He laughs shortly and rubs the back of his neck like something is there, tickling, tap

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.

I like watching film, I go to the cinema, but a lot of times I go to see kids' films.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

Buddhism leads you to the awareness that all things are holy. Everything is holy. The dark has its own light, in other words.

I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.

I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.

Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.

The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.