A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
Charles Dickens

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Henry Ward Beecher

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
Henry Ward Beecher

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher

A home without books is a body without soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
Neale Donald Walsch

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
Neale Donald Walsch

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner

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

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Elvis Presley

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Susan Sontag

I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
Payne Stewart

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Isaac Asimov