"The best children's book writers are not people who have kids, but people who write from the child within themselves."

“Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.”

Source : Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “Breathless”, p.6, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.”

“Contrast warm to cool. Make color sing, ring like a bell. Work from big to small.”

“Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.”

“When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.”

Source : "Get Back to That Place: Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins Talks Touring Again and Why He Adores Tove Lo". Interview with Kelli Bender, people.com. June 30, 2015.

“Take the year a country first reaches 50% literacy and add one or two generations to allow the idea to sink in and, democracy, more or less automatically, appears.”

“I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle ground. You have the really popular guys, you have the nerdy guys, and then you have the people who really don't care - and that was me. I wasn't really picked on or anything like that.”

“Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.”