“Like the best convenience store in the world, / the mind is always open.”

“Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store — all of the responsibility and none of the authority.”

“I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. There is always somthing to learn, always somthing that is important to understand”

“The mind is like a parachute, it works best when it is open.”

“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”

“Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul”