R. J. Palacio

"Given a chance, most children will do the right thing. I was hoping to make them aware that sometimes all it takes is a nice word to really make someone else’s day. Consequently, a thoughtless remark …"

"If you tell stories about a really cool kid that you can relate to, and then you hear about kids being mean to that kid, then you feel what it is like to walk in his shoes. And you think, that is not …"

"Little did I know — I mean the "choose kind" quote was not mine. It's one that I heard a couple years ago, by Wayne Dyer, and I put it in there because I think it's such a beautiful quote, and it's so…"