“The only way to do all the things you'd like to do is to read”

“Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.”

“I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.”

“Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.”

“He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'.”

“Falling hard for somebody makes you do things you never thought you'd do before. Like pulling off an A in History or finally facing the truth about yourself”

“But the only way never to do the wrong thing is never to do anything.”

“We only do well the things we like doing.”

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.”

“Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.”