If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

Confidence brings comfort and clarity.

Words, words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.

Work harder than anybody you've ever seen. That's what I believe.

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

The hastening of any undertaking begets error, from which great losses are wont to come.

We do not have it out there as a distant dream. This could actually be reality.

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.

When I told people that I was going to paint the big room magenta, many people thought that I was crazy.

Everything is really about lighting.

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.