The greatest gift is the 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. 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.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

You must accept yourself for who you are, to become the person that you want to be.

Peace is the umpire for doing the will of God.

My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.

The reality of it, excuse me, is when you're in the public they already have a perception of you, ... And that can be a little awkward.

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it.

The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!

To succeed [,] consider what is as though it were past, deem yourself inevitable and take credit for it. If you no longer believe, enlarge the temple.