Biology is destiny only for girls.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

I noticed you made a bee-line for their bookcases." It is the oldest and most incorrigible trait of the book-lover.

There are 200, 000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you.

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

What makes this so remarkable is that this is the first time the United States is accountable for its record on torture with regard to some of the practices implemented after 9/11.

To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!

Don't let your success of today lay you into complacency for tomorrow. For that is the worst form of failure.