And this, our life exempt from public haunts, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
Michael Berryman
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
Throw away those books and cassettes on inspirational leadership. Send those consultants packing. Know your job, set a good example for the people under you and put results over politics. That's all the charisma you'll really need to succeed.
Dyan Machan
My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity
Malcolm X
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Elizabeth Hardwick
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Oprah Winfrey
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can
William Feather
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all
Abraham Lincoln
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
Jeremy Collier