Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.

没有人关心你是否跳得好。只要站起来跳舞。伟大的舞者之所以伟大，是因为他们的激情。

最好的书是那些挑战你的书。

The art of education must be to bring the child to the point where he can educate himself.

The novel is a machine for generating meaning.