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.

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.

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

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.

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!

When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.

They say “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step’”Get up and take that step!Take baby steps if you want but go for it, Wait no longer…START IT!

It feels great to be alive.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

This is New York, babe. Be ready to expect anything.

I like grown up comedy.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

Consciousness equals energy = love = awareness = light = wisdom = beauty = truth = purity. It's all the same trip.

What does God need with a starship?