“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” 

"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.” 

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.” 

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?” 

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” 

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

“Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.” 

There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.

“Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.” 

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.” 

“Each others' lives are our best textbooks.” 

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

 We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary 

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.

Information is not knowledge.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I start each book when it's ready and never before.