There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

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.

Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!

It is not customary to love what one has.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.

I am an indifferent cook but I can make pie.

As a boy, I was about the slkowest moving youngster in school.

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

I hated school, didn't like the discipline.

Everyone's born confident, and everything's taken away from you.

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.