If you're afraid that books might change someone's thinking, you're not afraid of books, you're afraid of thinking. Andrea Junker

American leaders - eternally proving this place to be a land of cowards built by slaves on the bones of indigenous peoples. Andrew Tanner

The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. Saint Augustine of Hippo

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. Iris Murdoch