I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Samuel Johnson

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Marsha Norman

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

Karen Marie Moning

The United Nations four or five years ago put out a study that said the meat industry, meat-eating, growing meat for food is the No. 1 killer of our planet - not No. 2 or No. 3: No 1. You know what's No. 2? Transportation. Everyone thinks that No. 1 is transportation, and goes out and buys a hybrid car. Screw the hybrid cars. Don't eat hamburgers.

Maggie Q

Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.

Andrew Rannells

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Joel Osteen

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

Milan Kundera

Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers.

Orson Scott Card

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara Tuchman