I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

The pain that you've been feeling, can't compare to the joy that's coming.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love.

There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.

Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.

Take yourself by the scruff of the neck and shake off your incarnate laziness.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.