The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.

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.

There are no keys to success - only tools.

I’ll always love you, no matter what happens, okay?

When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

I have to be careful to get out before I become the grotesque caricature of a hatchet-faced woman with big knockers.

When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.

There can be only one purpose for relationships-and for all of life: to be and to decide Who You Really Are.

The left don't get what they want without the government forcing people to do it is the bottom line.