A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.

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.

To care about your outward appearance is important, but what’s more important is to have a beautiful soul.

The day she was born, her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.

You know what’s worse than burying your own child? Not burying your own child.

The Top 4 Causes of Medical Problems: stress, negative mindset, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle.

Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

Honor, publicly, results in influence, privately.

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.

I have never been much of a researcher

Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don't want. Don't let the game eat you; you eat the game.