In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Books are absent teachers.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.

If you never understand my silence, you will never understand my words.

My dreams kept me trying when I could have quit.

Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent; got kiss myself I'm so pretty.

Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.

I can see how people work out to feel better.

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

It's never been bad or ridiculous. I know who I am and what I've done, and I'm really comfortable with myself.

If you're lucky, and not a lot of actors are these days, you get the chance to create a character