"I read recently that in the U.S. today, the majority of people under the age of 21 are immigrants or first- or second-generation Americans. We need to integrate young people into community life far more fully than we currently do and give them role models they can relate to. We can do this if we make it a priority."

“Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.”

“A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.”

“There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.”

“God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter.”

“I try to make sure that, when I'm writing, I don't put too much Cody in it. But I don't want to lose it either.”

Source : Source: www.maroonweekly.com

“I'd not want to answer for the lives of other men; not at seventeen, by God's Grace.”

Source : Sharon Kay Penman (2008). “The Sunne In Splendour: A Novel of Richard III”, p.188, Macmillan

“I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.”

Source : Interview with Heidi Raykeill, www.literarymama.com. April 2004.

“It has become very difficult for anyone to argue that observed global warming is natural variability. We have good reason for being able to say that the world will be warmer by about a quarter of a degree in the next decade. It's the same reason we had 10 years ago when we said that the 1990s would be warmer than the 1980s: The planet is out of equilibrium.”