The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart.

I don’t let failure get to my heart, I let it get to my head.

"The characters in my books are often people who are struggling to find their place in the world."

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

The true essence of a story is not in its plot, but in the emotions it evokes.