One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden; only the delight of its users did that.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

The most important thing about quests, he decided, was not in finding what you went looking for, but in finding what you never could have imagined before you ventured forth.