My grandfather says that's what books are for, " Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.

It's easier to surrender to confinement.

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

Faith is the accepting of what God gives. Faith is the believing what God says. Faith is the trusting to what Jesus has done. Only do this and you are saved, as surely as you are alive!

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

Imagination makes cowards of us all.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.

Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.

The bottom line is, if every single platinum song right now wasn't auto-tuned, then I would be like, "I can't be a rapper."

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.