Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

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.

It's just that instead of erupting and annihilating our tormentors, we destroy ourselves instead.

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.

A night of sleep is as much preparation for the subsequent day's activity as it is recovery from that of the previous day.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

You should know what is taken out of the ecosystem in order to give you a moment's sustenance.

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted.