We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

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.

I’d lick you numb, Mariah. You have no idea the things I’m capable of.

We had no choice. Sadness was a dangerous as panthers and bears. the wilderness needs your whole attention.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

They should invent some way to tape-record your dreams. I've written songs in my dreams that were Beatles songs. Then I'd wake up and they'd be gone.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.

What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without?

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.

Your skin's so fair its not fair