“Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint.”

“He was the only man I have ever known who at any moment, on any subject within his wide range, could make a speech, logically developed, exact in phrasing, fortified with every fact and figure, which could be taken down and printed without revisions.”

“Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate.”

“It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words. But there is a wide range of emotional response that we make that cannot be put into words. We are so used to making these emotional responses that we are not consciously aware of them till they are represented in art work.”

“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person…. Reading is bliss.”

“A saint is one to be for two when three and you make five and two and cover.
A at most.
Saint saint a saint.”

“Heal the world, make it a better place,
For you and for me and the entire human race,
There are people dying, but if you care enough for the living,
Make a better place for you and for me.”

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”

“People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?”

“Although humans are not irrational, they often need help to make more accurate judgements and better decisions. […] [They] also need protection from others who deliberately exploit their weaknesses […].”