Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

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.

A sober mind, an unemotional heart and a positive attitude are key for success.

We were not told how Alexander the Great was the last person in history to successfully 'pacify' what would become Afghanistan, over 2, 000 years ago.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good but for neglecting his neighbor's.

The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time.

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

There are more social skills required to talk one-on-one [than to an audience]. You don't have to be socially fluid to talk to two thousand people.

Christ sent me to preach the gospel and he will look after the results.

Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.

We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention.

I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.