You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.

-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.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything.IvyMac: You can. That's what friends do.GrayG: I've never been friends with a girl before.IvyMac: I'm honored to be your first.

How is something authorised as 'feng shui compliant' he wondered. Is there a Chinese Ministry of Magic?

Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion.

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

Running - and yoga, too - is my sanity and my saviour. It's just finding the time to do it!

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

We are our own fates.- Our deeds are our own doomsmen.- Man's life was made not for creeds but actions.

I'm so blessed to have as many jobs that I have, but I do agree that there needs to be some downtime.