New places always help us look at life differently

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through.

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope.

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting a few dark circles, don't you think?

When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets.

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Change the size of your dreams if that’s what’s keep you static. Go for bigger dreams, but start in a small way. See the bigger picture and live by the desire to become excellent!

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.