If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.

However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!

Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming.

Although I had lived a far from perfect life, my heart and soul belonged to God, country, and family long before the Navy got hold of me.

Speech happens to not be his language.

Reach what you cannot

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

Well, actually, the Second City thing came about because I was taking a few improv classes there. I thought that the improv classes would help with my wrestling career, which it has.

A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now