A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

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.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

To love one that is great is almost to be great one's self.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

A true master has developed, in their inner practices and studies, certain powers. These powers are sometimes of the miraculous nature, the transmission of attention.

Be more than you seem to be.

Right reason is stronger than force.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.