In all your getting, get understanding.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.

The Constitution only guarantees the Nigerian people the human rights either in their preamble or substantive provisions in the country.

Sad old blokes, I'm told, now dream of me with a whip in hand.

Where is the safest place when that place / must be someplace other than in the body?

Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.

To change the world It starts with one step However small First step is hardest of all.

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

I've been more conscious of my salt intake, sugar intake, making sure I'm not eating as many processed foods.