I love books.
Reese Witherspoon

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
Hermann Hesse

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
Helen Hayes

Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
William Faulkner

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
William Faulkner

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
Sam Levenson

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Louisa May Alcott

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

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller

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

If the First Amendment means anything, it means that a state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his house, what books he may read or what films he may watch.
Thurgood Marshall

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

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

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Mike Tyson

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Mike Tyson

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Thomas Huxley

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.
Gustav Klimt