People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

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