If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors.

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.

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

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.

Love is the magic ink, which transform everyday life into a poetry.

In running back and forth among the things that might be important, we forget to spend enough time on what really is important.

I live larger than life.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.

You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

Scripture tells us that there will be signs pointing toward the return of the Lord. I believe all these signs are evident today.

Without error, there is no brilliancy.

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.