How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence..

The eyes are the windows of the soul.... If someone was to look into your eyes, what would you want them to see?.

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves..

Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in a….

I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unpl….

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections..

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around..

It often takes more courage to be a passenger than a driver..

Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy..

Often the search proves more profitable than the goal..

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds..

Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts?.

Never have a long conversation with anyone who says "between you and I..

I'm not sure that love and like aren't like cats and dogs: One can't grow up to be the other, but they can be taught to live under the same roof..

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add col….

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you n….

I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing ….

When I visit schools and talk to students about writing, I give them one word of advice and I give it to them quickly and loudly-FINISH! Starting som….

Biding one's time is a very different thing from patience..

Ninety percent of who you are is invisible." - Mrs. Zender.

When you hug someone, you learn something else about them. An important something else..