Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

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.

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.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

There is a rhythm to our language. they echo the rhythm of our life.

If it makes you happy, it’s what you’re supposed to do.

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due.

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

There is no reason to hide and every reason to flaunt.

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

Today - and it's happening very rapidly - money, wealth, position, birth are of no importance at all. The thing that is important is the individual you are.

I want to be there when you get Cubbin. And I don’t want to be left out of the television show either. Little people are sexy now. Have you seen Game of Thrones? We’re hot.

Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.

A high view of God leads to high worship and holy living, but a low of God leads to trivial worship and low living.