Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

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.

Human being one should have independent judgment capability and natural intelligence. Human should not behave like a dog - if one dog started to bark, then other dogs joins to bark for support.

Good reputation and growth doesn´t mean to God that the church is alive.

Things don't always go as planned, but it's when you make a plan out of the unplanned and make the best of the unlikely things In life.

Mystique saturates, gluts the air, Adventure’s even more than rare, Excitement’s everywhere to share, And Novelty’s beyond compare.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

The purposes of God point to one simple end-that we should be as he is, think the same thoughts, mean the same things, possess the same blessedness.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

I think my mom just filled me with confidence. I just thought I was the best at everything. Like any mother really.

We anathematize those who presume to teach or explain any other creed.

We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.