If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

I wish that we worried more about asking the right questions instead of being so hung up on finding answers.

We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.