Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

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.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.

When anybody and everybody registers to vote, they do so under the penalty of perjury.

I lost my job, well I didn't lose it, I know where it is, there's just some other guy doing it now.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

Jesus did not say that the whole world should go to church.Essentia lly He said that the church should go to the whole world.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.

Eating a healthy diet is not just about eating a few special foods. There's a bigger picture. You need to practice moderation, eat a variety of foods, and get enough physical activity.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.