Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.

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.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.

I can remember hearing the theme tune to Dallas when I was supposed to be in bed. I would sneak down and try to watch it through the banisters. My mum loved that show.

Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'.

Prejudice is the twin of illiberality.

A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.

You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.

The beautiful thing about L.A. is that you have 50 countries in one county. Diversity brings power and muscle.

When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.