A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

TO CUT THROUGH problems, we need problems.

I helped to restore America's leadership.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

There isn't a town in the world I haven't run amok in.

To improve communications, work not on the utter, but the recipient.

The shapes and markings of Felix and Mickey, perhaps more than Oswald, have similarities, but when you are using such simple basic construction (i.e. circles) there is bound to be such duplication.

Pain is always preferable to numbness.