Leo Tolstoy

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

The strongest of all warriors are these two – Time and Patience.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it. – Vronksy (Anna Karenina)

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution – such call I good books.

I love books.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Classic – A book which people praise and don’t read.

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.

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The last book I read was the book I’ve been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.