The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.

Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

My books are friends that never fail me."(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.

Book:Sharing of life and experiences with other people.This is lifetime notes for all generations.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.

There are an infinite number of good books, and only a finite amount of time in which to read them.

By way of this unprecedented, unbridled literary promiscuity, I have made some pleasant discoveries.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.