“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

“When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out”

“We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what no other race has: imagination. Any one of us, even the lowliest, can create worlds within ourselves; we can people them with the most extraordinary creatures, the most amazing inventions, the most incredible things. We can live in those worlds ourselves, if we choose; and in our own worlds, we can be as we want to be. Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead, Poison, for in imagination, we can create wonders.”

“People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.”

“I think most of us tell ourselves we don't want what we think we can't have just to make life bearable.”

“1. "What do you really want to get out of life?"2. "What can you offer the world that no one else can?”

“Something deep inside each one of us seeks to prove we are good enough--to our parents, our friends, ourselves, God. We do this because we know deep down that we aren't good enough, and the illusion of feeling like good people feels better than the reality of knowing we are not.”