Jane Yolen
Read something of interest every day — something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.
More quotes and aphorisms
Don't let people talk you into what they think is you...Justice delayed is justice denied...Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you...Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice...There are two ways of spreading light...Soul meets soul...