The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

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

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.

poets are born knowing the language of angels

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.