Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place them three or four feet apart, lay a board across them, and repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.