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What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you...Books break the shackles of time...proof that humans are capable of working magic.

When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

As long as we say, “I will love you, God, but first show me your generosity,” we will remain distant from God and unable to experience what God truly wants to give us, which is life and life in abundance.

I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on.

Once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone.

We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy

Life is the sum of all your choices.

[L]ook around. See the miracles the private sector does–you can stick a piece of plastic in the wall and cash will come out. You can go to a foreign country, hand that piece of plastic to a total stranger that does not even speak your language and he will rent you a car... When you get home Visa or MasterCard will have the accounting correct to the penny. Government cannot even count votes accurately.

I love it when women go to school. It's like seeing a monkey on roller skates - it means nothing to them, but it's so adorable for us.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Just stay where you are, and don't do *anything* revenge-y until I get there, you got it?

The best way to retrain is to be curious.

Where are you coming up with this crap?

I think we peaked at flint tools.

We're just apes with broadband.

I wasn't feeling fireworks with James, but then again, fireworks can burn you.

Not everything that stinks is shit, and not everything that glitters is gold

When you think like a hammer, everything looks like a nail.