We do not yet know each other because we have not yet dared to be silent together.

All the goodness, beauty, and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

Without imagination, nothing is dangerous.

a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.

Passion, that thing of beauty, that flowering without roots, has to be born, live and die without reason.

To live is often only to have a choice of several despairs.

Without imagination nothing is dangerous.

All the goodness beauty and perfection of a human being belong to the one who knows how to recognize these qualities.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Helpless, I clenched my fists against my back, well aware that every mile, every minute that ticked by, took me ever farther from getting to them in time and closer to losing the red dragon forever.

Education leaders must have the will at times to release leadership to the teachers the parents and the students.

You just grow up and learn to think instead of just feel.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

Camping in the backyard last night for Father's Day! Wrestling, stories, s'mores...it was awesome!

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

It's very funny to see a Justin Bieber song done by a bunch of grown men.

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.