“You’ll be a poorer person all your life if you don’t know some of the great stories and great poems.”

I function better when things are going badly than when they’re as smooth as whipped cream.

There is no magic in magic, it’s all in the details.

Laughter is no enemy to learning.

Even miracles take a little time.

Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.

Those who are clever, who have a brain, never understand anything.

Life is beautiful. It’s about giving. It’s about family.

If you can visualize it, if you can dream it, there’s some way to do it.

You don’t build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

That’s what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.

Good bye may seem forever. Farewell is like the end, but in my heart is the memory and there you will always be.

The difference in winning & losing is most often, not quitting.

Whatever we accomplish belongs to our entire group, a tribute to our combined effort.

The wonders of nature are endless.

I love the nostalgic myself. I hope we never lose some of the things of the past.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

Believe in yourself, know that you are great. Keep taking steps forward CHOOSE to run into fate.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Do you know, one of the greatest problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas?

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.