I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Reading books is good, Rereading good books is better.

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.

Did you know that each day that dawns, you are in "TODAY?" Stay in "Today" and you will never have to worry about tomorrow. God will take care of tomorrow.

Once employed, the employed's friends are reduced to creatures that he only sees when he has a new problem, or, something new to show off.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

Commentors to the Blog suggested Nick should take the Independent for every penny.

I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

SHINee is like the weather. Everyone has their own personalities and it's something that is essential to Earth.

When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.