You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

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.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy, in silence and isolation.

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

In too many cases, if our Government had set out determined to destroy the family, it couldn't have done greater damage than some of what we see today.

It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.

Thongs are the leading cause of pregnancy in the United States.

I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.