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.

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!

Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet.

For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.

Historically the mainstream media has never been particularly friendly to any socially progressive ideas.

Lunch should consist of at least 1/3 relationship building talk. If you don't have time for business talk, it was a very successful lunch.

If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.