You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.

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.

One who has great wisdom has great power.

Do u sometimes feel dumb or duffer are inadequate words to describe some people?How about DUMFER?

I think the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door.

A woman does not become interesting until she is over 40.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken us a lifetime to learn...for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together...this is the great paradox.

I feel that I've grown up a little bit and I'm actually ready to settle down.

There are few of us, if any, who don't walk the refiner's fire of adversity and despair, sometimes known to others but for many quietly hidden and privately endured.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.