When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.

Libraries are the future of reading.

If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?

Maybe that’s what I have been looking for. When storms and rockslides threaten, I am looking for someone who will hold on to me and not let go.

If it must be done, it's best done bravely.

Of course; a nurse wouldn't have been quite so bold in her speech. Not to a duke's heir. Not even to a wealthy tradesman who held the power of her employment in his too-large hands.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.

You see, I'm not some shiny bauble to be strung onto a necklace and displayed for all the world to see. I'm too proud to ever be anyone's conquest.

I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alone, under moonlight, I’ll not pretend that I want you for anything but mine.

Over the years, everyone stumbles. That's why I'll be here for you — and you'll be there for me. I don't expect perfection. I want you, and you're a thousand times better.

You could make me say it again, " he whispered. "Make me say it always. Make me say it so often that you never have cause to doubt. I love you.

If you want to know how to swim, you take lessons. If you want to walk on water, lessons won´t help you, just faith.

...if He has a message to get across to us, He will continually reaffirm what He has said through a variety of ways.

I don't put my ideas in a meeting for acceptance or rejection, I put them in the market for success or failure.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

A writer's work is to witness things.

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.

Today's audience knows more about what's on television than what's in life.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

We are often less grieved at disappointments than at ourselves for having said much concerning the certainty of our expectations.