You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes.

To know you are ignorant is the beginning of wisdom, ” Viviane said. “Then, when you begin to learn, you will not have to forget all the things you think you know.

If you always make the right decision, the safe decision, the one most people make, you will be the same as everyone else.

no job is a good job if it isn't good for you.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

A leader is a man who can adapt principles to circumstances.

But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

If you are asking me if my more global purpose is a battle against religion, it is.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.