What are people going to do? Fire me? I’ve been fired before. Not book me? I’ve been out of work before. I don’t care.
I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.
Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
The dear good people don’t know how long it takes to learn to read. I’ve been at it eighty years, and can’t say yet that I’ve reached the goal.
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
Beware of a man of one book.
Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.
Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.
The Compound Effect is a must-read book for success seekers. You want to know what it takes? You want to know what to do? It’s all in these pages. The Compound Effect is a clear and concise success operation manual!
42% of college graduates never read a book after college.
Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
Books belong to their readers.