"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
— Robert Maynard Hutchins

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

"To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind."
— Geraldine Brooks

"God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so."
— Geraldine Brooks (Year of Wonders)

"A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand."
— Geraldine Brooks (People of the Book)

"It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that they had loved. You do not want that, surely? I have heard some preach that God wants us to forget the dead, but I cannot believe so. I think He gives us precious recollections so that we may not be parted entirely from those He has given us to love. You must cherish your memories of your babes, Anna, until you see them again in Heaven."
— Geraldine Brooks (Year of Wonders)

"People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned."
— Saul Bellow

"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde-- dyed by her own hand."
— Saul Bellow

"All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!"
— Saul Bellow (Henderson the Rain King)