The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

I’m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.

It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop.

If you spend an extra hour each day of study in your chosen field you will be a national expert in that field in five years or less.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.