... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

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.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can make you a star, but you have to decide.

A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it

Forsake not an old friend for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.

Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

safety and love are both illusions!

He preaches well that lives well

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.