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

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
— Bessie Anderson Stanley

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
— Oscar Wilde

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
— Oscar Wilde

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."
— Mark Twain

"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
— Henry Ward Beecher

"When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes."
— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."
— Groucho Marx

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers."
— Charles W. Eliot

"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
— Madeleine L'Engle

"A house without books is like a room without windows."
— Horace Mann

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading."
— William Styron

"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
— Arnold Lobel

"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones."
— Joseph Joubert

"Books may well be the only true magic."
— Alice Hoffman

"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
— G.K. Chesterton

"Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back."
— John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)

"book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. it is not a hobby. those who do it must do it. those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind."
— Jeanette Winterson

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book."
— Jane Smiley (13 Ways of Looking at the Novel)

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."
— Abraham Lincoln

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations."
— Henry David Thoreau

"A book is a gift you can open again and again."
— Garrison Keillor

"For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die."
— Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

"All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not."
— Nick Hornby

"This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends."
— Cornelia Funke (Inkspell)

"Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else."
— Mark Twain

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
— Italo Calvino

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
— Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

"Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end."
— Pseudonymous Bosch (The Name of this Book is Secret)

"I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic, books of all kinds reflecting every transient stage of my parents' interest, books readable and unreadable, books suitable for a child and books most emphatically not. Nothing was forbidden me. In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass."
— C.S. Lewis

"If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job."
— John Berry

"We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel...is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become."
— Ursula K. LeGuin

"We live for books."
— Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose)

"Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind."
— James Russell Lowell

"And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...," He murmured.
"What a stupid lamb, " I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion."
— Stephenie Meyer

"When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, is it not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end?"
— Stephenie Meyer

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

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