“When people use you, it does not feel very good. But when God uses you for His purpose, it's the greatest feeling in the world!”

“Just as food is fuel for the body, books are fuel for the mind.”

“Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive”

“It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.”

“I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!”

“Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettie...”

“To know the history of science is to recognize the mortality of any claim to universal truth. ”

“The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.”