If you're afraid of your own dreams, you're welcome here in mine.

He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

Don't look at me like that, " said Ruza."Like what?""Like I'm a beautiful book you're about to open and plunder with your greedy mad eyes.

...but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.

It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.

Even if it was just walls and a roof with papers inside, it had bewitched him, and drawn him in, and given him everything he needed to become himself.

It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.

I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.

He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.

How you spend your energy is ultimately what creates who you

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

I pay attention to my diet to be a healthier gymnast, but I'm not obsessive over it.

Given the irreversibility of the death penalty, the possibility of a wrongful conviction can never be overstated.

Being a good neighbor is an art which makes life richer.

Freud, Sigmund: A man so dissatisfied with his own mother and father that he devoted his life to convincing everyone who would listen — or better still, talk — that their parents were just as bad.

If you don't value your time, neither will others. Stop giving away your time and talents- start charging for it.

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

At times of the severest depression, humor is what binds people together.