In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become a creator, imagining the setting of the story, visualizing the characters, seeing facial expressions, hearing the inflection of voices. The author and the reader "know" each other; they meet on the bridge of words.

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

A new year can begin only because the old year ends.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the stars. To the wind.

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.