I am also four, and twelve, and fifteen, and twenty-three, and thirty-one, and forty-five and . . . and . . . and . . ..

Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else..

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast.

Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you ….

Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. W….

science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities..

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhyt….

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel….

It might be a good idea if, like the White Queen, we practiced believing six impossible things every morning before breakfast, for we are called on t….

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be..

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important..

Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the Darkness disappeared. The ….

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with….

The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught. What a teacher can do... in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so….

It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends..

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure..

Behind the violence of the birthing of galaxies and stars and planets came a quiet and tender melody, a gentle love song. All the raging of creation,….

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf..

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it..

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be h….

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly.