Was there only one world after all which spent its time dreaming of others?

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

One curious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; you move backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives come to you.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.

Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

I was always confident and comfortable. But motherhood is what really made me feel beautiful.

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

We can't change the moon but we can live in harmony with its tides, and we can make some ripples of our own.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

Black, like white, is the best color!

That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.