Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

-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.

Nothing else in this world can renew our minds like the Bible.

Wherever you are, be all there.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows.

Oh! Lord should I forget anything, never let me forget that without you I am nothing.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.