There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

There are three faithful friends – an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

I’ll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I’ll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I’m not there, but I’ll always come back.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

I’m a girls‘ girl. I have guy friends, but the problem with having guy friends is, like, I always get linked to them, and they’ll end up in a slideshow of people I’ve apparently dated on the Internet.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

I don’t read books much.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Trust is not the same as faith. A friend is someone you trust. Putting faith in anyone is a mistake.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever.

And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don’t think anyone in my family would really feel I’d done them an injustice by saying that. We didn’t see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.

Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can’t ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow – that’s vulnerability.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

I have a really close relationship with Mike Bloomberg.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

OVOXO will always be there.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.