After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.

I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal, all for the gain of a book.

When we learn to love unconditionally we will find endless happiness and infinite peace.

We choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen ... or not

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Gansey knew enough people with secrets not to be dazzled into easily using them as currency.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.

I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.

So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win.

Heaven and hell are not geographical, they are psychological, they are your psychology.