The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

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.

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

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.

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have togive up all the other important things.

No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...

Never do anything as though you are a professional armature

The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Winter was nothing but a season of snow; spring, allergies; and summer...It was the worst. That was swimsuit season.