The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.

Create time for yourself... There are 24 hours in a day... Outline the number to spend on your dreams every day!

Adversity is awakening of spirit.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random

Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

You do design because you feel it inside; you have a moral issue to spread quality in our environment.

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.