What I have come to believe is that joy is the twin sister of gratitude. I am most joyful when I am most grateful.

The name we give to something shapes our attitude toward it.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.

Peace is not won by those who fiercely guard their differences, but by those who with open minds and hearts seek out connections.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

As much pleasure as young people get from Twittering and texting, there is no way these activities will nourish their minds and spirits the way literature can.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Some folks are natural born kickers. They can always find a way to turn disaster into butter.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I love cats.

So, what does it mean for teaching and learning programming when the solution to every beginner problem is available on the Internet?

Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

The desperate usually succeed because they have nothing to lose.

The one key line used by a very rich Hudson salesman: Would you like to buy a car now, without waiting?

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell.

I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.

One of the problems with technology is that no photograph, as superb and outstanding as it may be, will ever be as satisfying as the most middle-rate painting.

What you put out is already on its way back to you.

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.