“I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.”

“Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I am neither the former nor the latter. I am but a man in particular circumstances, and the most beautiful part is that an individual human life is capable of contributing to the growth, the awakening of the collective strength. That is what matters!”

“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”

“He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.”

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves.”

“The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.”

“He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.”