Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

~ William Hazlitt

"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free."

~ Frederick Douglass

"As a holistic being you shatter the illusion of your separateness and reveal your connection to everything. This empowers you in a way that the ego-driven self could never contemplate."

-- Wayne Dyer

"Light tomorrow with today!"

-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."

- Joseph Conrad

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe"

Anatole France

There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

~Marina Tsvetaeva

"Fun is like life insurance: the older you get the more it costs."

-Kin Hubbard

"One thing I feel most passionately about: love of invention will never die."

-Karl Benz