Education is the cheap defense of nations.

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.

These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be born in Paris.

Our ability to achieve success depends on the strength of our wings gained through knowledge and experience. The greater our knowledge and experience, the higher we can fly.

Don't take my word for it! I challenge you to do your own homework.

Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

There is something wonderful about a book. We can pick it up. We can heft it. We can read it. We can set it down. We can think of what we have read. It does something for us. We can share great minds, great actions, and great undertakings in the pages of a book.

There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.