I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

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.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

I believe that I am God's exact intention. It's that balance of virtue and vice.

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut knot Of your bondage-life?