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.

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.

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.

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

I am the only one who can save me from myself.

God is the Ruler of His mighty creation. There is no reason to despair, because He holds in His hands the whole world, while His Spirit is able to fill the void in man’s heart.

The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.

Constantly to seek the purpose of life is one of the odd escapes of man. If he finds what he seeks it will not be worth that pebble on the path.

Leadership is the art of creating a working climate that inspires others to achieve extraordinary goals and levels of performance.

I saw that worrying had come to nothing and gave it up. And took my old body and went out into the morning, and sang.

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

The ongoing successful treatment of my depression is the single most important positive step I have taken in my life, hence my enthusiasm for the subject.

An empty canvas is full only if you want it to be full.

The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same