“it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses. ”

“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.”

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

“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 a few dark circles, don't you think?”

“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 your beliefs really are until you have to defend them.”

“When you listen to G. T. Stoop, you understand the importance of being a honorable person, you get charged to fight for the truth, you get angry that so many politicians are playing games with people's trust.”

“When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.”