Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself.

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.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

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.

Wanna beat the heatJust keep on rocking to the beat

She took no pleasure in knowing…whatever he asked of her, she would do.

One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape then you can do anything or practically anything.

The planet is ill, everyone knows that. But I need to be optimistic, otherwise I would just be adding to the negativity. So every night I come on Madrid TV and read a piece of good news.

Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.