Believing takes practice.

I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.

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. Whatsit

You have to write the book that wants to be written.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

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 that it can burn. As far as I'm concerned, this providing of oxygen is one of the noblest of all vocations.