Time goes on, even when yer not looking.

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.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

What an author doesn't know could fill a book.

Everything that happens in your future is a direct result of what you do today.

They were home. He always felt a bit like a snail, but instead of carrying his home on his back, he carried it in his arms.

I have yet to go through a struggle I didn't smile at later.

The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

Schools should take part in the great work of construction and organization that will have to be done.

I always sang and I always wrote...it's just having that ambition. You really can't let go of your dreams.

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.