You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

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.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

Arguing that the only problem with a free market is lack of competition, is like arguing that that the only problem with prostitution is that there aren't enough pimps.

God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

The point of acting is to hide yourself and get lost in character. To play the same character in eighteen movies would be defeating the purpose I believe so I try to keep a little bit of diversity.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

I am interested in a hundred things, but only slightly.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

Separation to God, separation from the world, is the first principle of Christian living.