Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

What I mean by that is that the point of life as I see it is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans but to achieve happiness and preferably an unselfish happiness.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

All the ills of mankind all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books all the political blunders all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

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.

Good books like good friends are few and chosen the more select the more enjoyable.

My Alma mater was books a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading just satisfying my curiosity.

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

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.

Books are good enough in their own way but they are a poor substitute for life.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.

Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books but no one can get anything out of life without God.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

I don't mind saying you know that I don't take a salary from the church and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.