Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future.

We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.