No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith.

…after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

A mighty maze! But not without a plan.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

If I could just walk around and light the candles with my finger, that would be kind of cool.

They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'

The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny.

Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.