I cannot live without books.
Thomas Jefferson

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Maya Angelou

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Mark Twain

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

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
John Wooden

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Mohandas Gandhi

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Mohandas Gandhi

The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and neglect most.
Confucius

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Walt Disney

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Steven Wright

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost