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

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.

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.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

When my father wrote about fate, I think he was writing about the reality that is, when there are so many other realities that could have been.

Dream to dare

Honor, " she said, "is the coin that stays in your pocket when all your silver has been spent.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Regression analyses show that self-efficacy contributes to achievement behavior beyond the effects of cognitive skills

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

The world is my lobster.

Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.