Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

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

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

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

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.

We were poor, but we smiled.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I only want my work to make people happy.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

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.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.