* “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
* “Books and friends should be few but good.” ― Socrates
* “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” ― Frederick Douglass
* “In books I have found the dead as if they were alive; in books I have found the absent as if they were present; in books I have found the dumb having voice and the invisible made visible.” ―Al-Jahiz
* “What is the joy of life fully lived if all pain is avoided at any cost. What thrill exists in victory without peril or strife? Who knows the sweetness of the kiss that has tasted only its own lips?” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet