A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds.

One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.

The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Too late. It was all too late. But she went on, determined as ever and always trying to catch up.

I have to seem like a human being all the time, but I seldom have to be one. I have people to do that for me.

I think of literature - she wrote - as a vast country to the far borders of which I am journeying but cannot possibly reach. And I have started too late. I will never catch up.

With fire we test gold, and with gold we test women, and with women we test men.

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

I have no clue who that old Jim was. God has certainly transformed me into a different Jim.

We have an infinite amount to learn both from nature and from each other.

Live while you live, then die and be done with.

As I say yes to life, life says yes to me!

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.