“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.”

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind.

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to let will direct it.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

Life comes only from life.

Question your priorities often, make sure God always comes first.

The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.

Oh my goodness the mystery that has prompted my objective. My quality lies exclusively in my tirelessness.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries.

The role of the infinitely small in nature is infinitely great.

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

The idea of God is a form of the idea of the Infinite.

Our only consolation, as we feel our strength failing us, is to feel that we may help those who come after us to do more and to do better than ourselves.

The greatest malfunction of spirit is to believe things.

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

It is not the germs we need worry about. It is our inner terrain.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

The real war will never get in the books.

Literature is my Utopia

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.

I love comic books. I just do.

I love comic books. I just do.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.