Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.

If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.

Do it for joy and you can do it forever

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans.