Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

The reader leaves his mark on the book, as the book leaves its mark on the reader.

Why do we do so few when we can do so much?

A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!

Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read, however extraordinary this one was.

Life can be so unexpected and wolderful!

A dove carries peace on its wings.

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

The last time I saw African kids this excited, Madonna was at their school with a net.

I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe her one for choosing Emmett; no one had a better brother than mine.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.