And changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good.

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.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.

I don't wear my faith on my sleeve, but I definitely do walk with it every day in my heart.

Who is of so little faith that in a moment of great disaster or heartbreak has not called to his God?

I learn that you can work really hard and still have a great time. That is part of Russell Crowe philosophy.

I was a good student, sort of funny and athletic. I had friends.