When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

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.

Peace can be fragile and peace can be ugly and peace can be wrong. Peace built on lies is no peace at all.

Happiness needs one-upmanship.

Nobody's really paying that much attention to your massive personal dramas.

What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.

I think there are a lot of things that are different and there are a lot of things that are the same.

Strong people don't put others down. they lift them up.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.