I love to read for my pleasure.
Where should one turn for guidance in an appraisal of of the essence of justice, morality, ethics, religion, science, literaturem, and the like? Not to the past, for history is willfully misinterprete...
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Books are for nothing but to inspire
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and...
My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.
I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, And the reason of things, And to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: And I find more bitter than death,...
Throughout the ages, the wisdom has been taught. Now the language has changed, and truth is given in the language of science.
It is not enough to be a man... you have to become an idea... a terrible thought... a wraith- indeed- Become one with the darkness.
The inner dimension and the hidden time have already been discovered.
You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals.
You are judged many times more by what you give assent to others doing than what you do yourself. If one million of you give assent to the one thousand who participate in the murder of a child, then o...
You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals. If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand time...
Cleave to the common good. We are all responsible for bringing about the time of great suffering, for its continuing.
Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken p...
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
Books have a way of finding their way into our lives, usually, right when we need them the most.
The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good.