But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

The high-ceilinged rooms, the little balconies, alcoves, nooks and angles all suggest sanctuary, escape, creature comfort. The reader, the scholar, the browser, the borrower is king.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.

Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

Books fall open, you fall in.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

Yes! Yes! There's the attitude. Where was that girl during the race? Off getting sushi?

Are you okay?” someone asked. “I’m fine, ” I snapped, turning to face Jayden Griffin. “I have to admit, you’re getting better at lying, Tess Embers, ” he said quietly. “However, I know you’re not okay.

I believe that everything you work at and want in life is a great challenge.

I'm a normal sized girl. I'm not a size double zero; I don't weigh 90 pounds. I'm a healthy girl.

I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the children, or the easily bored.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

I'm a huge Lady GaGa fan - she makes the world a more incredible place.

I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.