“Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice.”

“If those we love visit us when we dream, those who torment us almost always visit us when we're still awake.”

“In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.”

“...those of us who write for children are called, not to do something to a child, but be someone for a child.”

“May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.”

“We all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”