Words worth keeping

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

Don't Panic.

Live to the point of tears.

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie. (Jace Wayland)