Some people just need to read and think, to spend time alone sorting through the stories in their heads

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Do you know, Alexey Fyodorovitch, how people do go out of their mind?

Choice is your greatest power. It is an even greater power than love, because you must first choose to be a loving person.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.