When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal.
A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.
I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.
We cannot be a source of strength unless we nurture our own strength. I believe that not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but that ultimately they are indistinguishable.
I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.