“It takes a great reader to make a great book. (Creative Self-Publishing)”

“If you can't change your mind, you can't change anything.”

“Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.”

“It's good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel.”

“You can have anything you want so long as you realise that you can't have everything you want.”

“Quite amazing how determined kings and emperors have been to destroy books. But civilization is built on such desecrations, is it not? Justinian the Great burned all of the Greek scrolls in Constantinople after he codified the Roman law and drove the Ostrogoths from Italy. And Shih Huang Ti, the first Emperor of China, the man who unified the five kingdoms and built the Great Wall, decreed that every book written before he was born should be destroyed.”

“There was nothing so dangerous to a king or an emperor as a book. Yes, a great library—a library as magnificent as this one—was a dangerous arsenal, one that kings and emperors feared more than the greatest army or magazine.”