"Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development." Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed." Mark Twain

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill." Barbara Tuchman

"Ninety percent of everything we know has been passed along through story." Laurens van der Post, Anthropologist

"If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us." Anonymous

"The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else." Randy Pausch

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin

"I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense." Harold Kushner

"I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget." William Phelps

"What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Our theories determine what we measure." Albert Einstein

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us." W.H. Auden, poet (1907-1973)

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all of the miseries of life." W. Somerset Maugham

�Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.� Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

"The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow old and die out; and, after an era of darkness, new races build others." Clarence Day, writer, (1874-1935)

“Since caveman days around the fire, humans have been hardwired for storytelling. Books, movies, television, advertising, news, speeches, even scientific reports, conference panels and, of course, relating our life experiences to one another - it’s all storytelling. It’s how we best learn.” Ronni Bennett http://ronnibennett.typepad.com/

“Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.” Philip Dormer Stanhope, statesman and writer (1694-1773)

“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.” James Baldwin, writer, (1924-1987)

“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.” Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)

“We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranges and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.” Albert Einstein

“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, educator and author (1902-2001)

“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 are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.” James Russell Lowell, poet, editor, and diplomat (1819-1891)

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.” Henry Miller, novelist (1891-1980)