Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

Education is everywhere, prompting one to think, to consider, to remember.

There is nothing more dangerous than a woman with a shotgun. Because you don't know when it's going to go off...and neither does she.

A journey is time suspended.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.