People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.
That’s what my books are, now that I’m a grownup – mosaics of jokes.
I go on many thrilling adventures and wondrous, profound escapades through books.
Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.
Never index your own book.
In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.
It may be suggested by some books that it is not a sin to kill an animal, but it is written in our own hearts – more clearly than in any book – that we should take pity on animals in the same way as we do on humans.
The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive.
In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.
And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever.
Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?
Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
You can’t develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.
The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.
Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines.
The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.
Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.