For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived.

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.

I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

when guns are outlawed only the outlaws will have guns.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.