We sure as ruddy heck ain't in Prentisstown no more," I say to Manchee under my breath.

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.

Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself].

The voice of the heart is much stronger than all the other sounds and words spoken without feelings

All our good deeds cannot save us.We are saved by grace and faith in Jesus Christ.

Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.