Girls are small and polite and smiley. They wear dresses and their hair is long and it’s pulled into shapes behind their heads or on either side.

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.

One time I actually cleaned out my closet so good I ended up on the cover of Time magazine.

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

I've never seen more dishonest media than frankly, the political media. I thought the financial media was much better, much more honest.

This great God loves us still, He loved us since the world began and what's more, He always will.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

Liability does apply with respect to the amount of the oil spill.

The idea of empowering people and that moment when someone sees what they are capable of is just incredible to me.

There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you.

Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problems.