There's more than one way to tell each other things, and there's more than one way to listen, too..

I know it's hard to not do well at something, and I know it's hard to need help..

...how do you run and play when you feel like there are bricks of the heaviest sadness weighing down every part of your body? How do you laugh and ta….

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom o….

And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness..

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice..

I believe good plans are the best way to maximize fun, avoid disaster, and possibly, save the world. I spend a lot of my time making them..

Sadness is a powerful foe, maybe harder to keep down than happiness..

There is never enough time for fun..

Apologizing is like spring cleaning..

In the morning I'm like a snake in the spring: I need to lie out on a warm rock and let the sun sink into me before I can start wiggling around and g….

I was saying the right things, but not the really true things..

...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans..

...all of a sudden I felt filled up again, so that my heart might come up my throat. And I was thinking how that can come over you, out of nowhere, a….

It thought about the magic that happens when you tell a story right, and everybody who hears it not only loves the story, but they love you a little ….

I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travel….

...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the most important things would never get….

We don't own the earth. We are the earth's caretakers...we take care of it and all the things on it. And when we're done with it, it should be left b….