After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Fight for what you want. Never allow anything to distract you.

The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

Anyone can forget about talent, but if you're a good person, your name will be remembered a long time.

I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

Time’ has ceased, 'space' has vanished. We now live in a global village... a simultaneous happening

Our creature comforts

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.