People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

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.

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

You can keep going on much less attention than you crave.

Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

Feet got sore, body was tired, long day, march down Manhattan.I felt a fire lit within me.Hopefully this fire will touchall of us, will be a long fight.-Climate Change March 2014

If you set as your goal to roll back the size of government, you have an obligation to answer the tough questions and show real courage, not just appeal to ideology. Treat the voters like adults.

Pressure doesn't exist. We create it for ourselves.

Don't disparage America's military.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.