In the end, what matters is this: I survived.

I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)

My eye was drawn to a bright green hue, the same shade as a poisonous Amazonian frog, the tiny, delightfully deadly ones.

You can't have too much dog in a book.

I took one of my hands in the other, tried to imagine what it would feel like if it was another person's hand holding mine. There have been times where I felt that I might die of loneliness.

When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

in principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder

There is help for the helpless, hope for the hopeless, and forgiveness for the inexcusable.

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.

The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

The key to success is radical generosity.

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

I put a lot of emphasis on childrens issues. Children are many times ignored because they dont vote, and they dont have lobby groups.

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

Our goal in education should be to foster the ability to use the computer in everything you do, even if you don't have a specific piece of software for the job.