Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.

We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

Do what you can as you can. Trouble, problems, will come no matter what you do , and you must respond as they come.

A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

Good values are like a magnet, they attract good people.

I belong therefore I exist.

We actors don't travel as tourists with a camera, we really get to enter the life of a place and get to know it.

Commitment is a line you must cross. . . . it is the difference between dreaming and doing.

Age demands respect; youth, love.

I personally believe that the office of the President of India is not to be sought. It is to be offered.

There's no such thing as success on an isolated level.

There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated.

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.