Friendship isn't always sunnyside up.

- Jerry Spinelli

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

- Jerry Spinelli

Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track,…

- Jerry Spinelli

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting t…

- Jerry Spinelli

if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

- Jerry Spinelli

We long to be found, hoping our searchers have not given up and gone home.

- Jerry Spinelli

A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is bu…

- Jerry Spinelli

Because life doesn't always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can't be scheduled.

- Jerry Spinelli

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

- Jerry Spinelli