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

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.

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!

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.

When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!

So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.

There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.

I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

It has always seemed to me that Barack Obama has studied intensely and learned a great deal from Lincoln.