Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

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.

I had always wanted to hear those words.I had always wanted to be your girl.

The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.

Make enthusiasm a way of life.Make optimism a way of success.Make gratitude a way of happiness.

This story will never go down.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

When I wasn't working, I put the blame directly where it belonged - I blamed my agent. When I didn't have an agent, I spent time looking for a new agent so I would have somebody to blame.

If you're offended, what the Supreme Court has said the answer to speech you do not like is not less speech, it's more speech. There are many people in America who don't get that.

What's so funny about peace, love, and understanding?

I fight not for myself, I fight for the audience.