The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

...there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.

We are the authors of our own fate-we write it each day with every one of our actions.

If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516

The paths that we choose don't always take us where we want to go. Sometimes they take us where we need to go.

I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books...True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.