My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid..

I hope you'll have the kind of life where what you stand for is so important that it makes some people outright hostile. You won't know how strong yo….

You don't understand how much light you have until the lights go out..

Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to….

I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourse….

When you have something so important, something that you'll stay awake for, something you know that you were designed to do, well, it's worth getting….

Almost. It’s a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I’m hop….

...It isn't the problems along the way that make us or break us. It's how we learn to stand and face them that makes the difference..

And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You just have to try to be a true person. We learned th….

You've got to love yourself with all your short comings, and you've got to love the world no matter how bad it gets..

...Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be fle….

Mountains draw you to a deeper place in yourself.

I'll tell you something about tough times. They just about kill you, but if you decide to keep working at them, you'll find your way through..

My father always told me that in this world we are going to make a truckload of mistakes, but the best mistake we can ever make is to err on the side….

Librarians understand about power - they know how to find anything..

When we don't have the words chocolate can speak volumes..

Staring down hard truth takes guts..

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering..

You don't know which way a thing will come at you, but you need to welcome it with your whole heart which ever way it arrives..

A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance..

when hope gets released in a place, all kinds of things are possible.