Things change, but they stay the same.

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 some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself

The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.

Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.

Sometimes the way to share your love is to let someone go.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

You can't take the view of some of the sectarian parties that hard issues can't be confronted when dealing with workers. If you don't confront these issues, what will ever change?

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I don't hold with abroad and think that foreigners speak English when our backs are turned.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.