-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 is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

Thoughts have the power, To change how you perceive the world around you, To inflict worry, or make peace abound too.

There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.

Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans for its accomplishment.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

When I was a child, I was referred to as the Danny Kaye of the family, because I was always impersonating and mimicking people. I was a song and dance man.

There's one thing I never did do, and that was stink.

I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.

Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict.