Keep on doing what you're doing.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

We are each responsible for our own emotional well being.

Is there any riches like redemption?

The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor.

In the computer field, the moment of truth is a running program; all else is prophecy.

Ultimately, the impresario must know when to simply get out of the way.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream thy flowing wounds supply, redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.