Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.

Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

Friendship is love as much as any romance. And like any love, it’s difficult and treacherous and confusing. But in the moment when your knees touch, there’s nothing else you could ever want.

I'm the girl who's desperate to get out of her small town because if she doesn't she knows she'll die. She knows her soul will start to rot, like fruit gone bad.

A leftist government doesn't exist because being on the left has nothing to do with governments.

You are only earning the life you get when your inaction allows people to decide for you.

Any expert will tell you that if you want emotionally committed relationships then people must be allowed to be true to who they are.

I led the league in go get 'em next time.

The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

I want to do that thing rich people do where they turn money into more money.

Crises can never break the one who relies on God's strength.

Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty books a year.