You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial.

-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.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Do no harm, but take no shit.

To be different is to seek God earnestly

For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen.

You can't play chess if you're groggy from pills.

The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.

A sleeping cat is ever alert.

My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.

A global economy requires a global currency.

They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.