We are the choices we make. And have to make. We aren’t anything else.

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.

We can strive to put the past behind us, serve God to the best of our ability now, and look ahead to the glorious future!

I think imagination is a crazy thing, and that's what makes the world go around.

Happiness is not found, it is created. Happiness does not depend on all that we lack, but on the way in which we use all that we have

We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it!

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know.

Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.

God will always do great things with people who are willing to be faithful in the small things.

I'd always find the positive in someone.