Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

Changing circumstances always present great opportunities as well as new challenges. Once you recognise the relationship, you’ll understand the need for passion and persistence (KR, 1995)

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

I can pardon everybody's mistakes except my own.

I really want to go back to school and finish up my sociology degree.

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of the human capacity before our time.

They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.

I am a creature of the sun. I don't ever mind being in the heat.

When you strip all of this down it's just about a God in Heaven who loves you very much. And created in you a heart for Him...Your heart was fashioned by Jesus and for Jesus.

Workflow is understanding your job, understanding your tools, and then not thinking about it any more.