We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

Having the courage to speak one's mind is as important as knowing when the time is right to do so.

We can help the next generation, with the stories we write today.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step toward it.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

I do remain confident in Linda. She'll make a fine labor secretary. From what I've read in the press accounts, she's perfectly qualified.

I do cook whenever the time permits. But my daughter Isha is a much better cook than I am.

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat.

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.