Katherine Paterson Quote

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.

Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.

If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.

It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.

Most police cars are the equivalent of an electrical room on wheels and it does not surprise me that police officers that spend time in such a biologically toxic environment are displaying aggression.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.

Whatever we have in the glory of man is "away". Those are just not enough before we go "home" to the glory of God.