“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.”

“what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.”

“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”

“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”

“Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.”

“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”