There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

When men have come to the edge of a precipice, it is the lover of life who has the spirit to leap backwards, and only the pessimist who continues to believe in progress.

There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

The Universe is the most extraordinary masterpiece ever constructed by nobody.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.