By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

I thought of him as a beautiful deer in the forest that made this world a better place simply by existing

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

The important part of dreaming is what you do when you wake up.

The sort of poetry I seek only resides in objects Man can't touch - like England 's grass network of lanes 100 years ago, but today he can destroy them and only Lord Farrer keeps him from doing it.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

When we are accomplishing the good, the greatest opposition comes.

Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.

There are no signposts in the sea.

If you forget your roots, you've lost sight of everything