...the lesson of forever and ever is that knowing a man's mind ain't knowing the man.

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.

Internalising success means that even if a misfortune takes away all the evidence or traces of success, yet what made you successful, remains. Soon enough, the evidence will return.

Master, take me in along with these people." Jesus answered and said, "Your star has led you astray, Judas.

Once he got there, he stopped and looked back. “You know, the thing about manners is that we only seem to notice the lack of them in others. It's a lot harder to see mistakes in ourselves.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.

Bad times are indelible. They stay with you forever.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

I just think streaming feels like it's the future. It allows people to watch things in a way that fits into their lives.

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.