Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?

The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

I will guard you from Death, for I have no fear of him.

He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man's yabber.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

Bill Cosby was the first comedian I was exposed to, because he doesn't curse.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Jesus Christ must be at the heart of every sermon you preach.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.