What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment.

-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.

It was in the words he didn't say... that I found all the answers to my questions.

She went looking for beauty but never looked inside herself.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

The Catholic Church has a tough new policy on child molestors: three strikes and you're a cardinal.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good.

What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

I used to try and take things in leaps and bounds. Now I've realized it's got to be step by step.