Top Books Quotes

No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhe...

Dedicate your life to solitude and mortify your members which are upon the earth.

All the truth of God are discoverable through every day life.

Science has given us a great lie. It is this lie that ends the current age of faith in God.

You are alone. But you seems not afraid- though you weary with your groaning; wandering far off in the wilderness and your eyes, consumed because of your grief; waxed old while you're still young.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.

Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable image...

That's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody's going to be against, and everybody's going to be for. Nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

And so I'm me again, Leo. Thanks to the example of a five-year-old. I'm hoping you wouldn't want it any other way. Not that you weren't flattered, right? I mean, to have a girl two thousand miles away...

If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books ar...

It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it.

I've always believed in spreading the gospel of good books.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

I find it quite intriguing that the one observing me as different, immediately assumes that there's something wrong with me, but never, not even for one instant, questions the possibility of the oppos...

Thank God For Writing, As Now I Can Work Until My Last Breath!