“No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.” (Sydney Smith)

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”  (Don Quixote, Cervantes)

“It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”  (Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy)

“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, Lees meer…

“‘I think I’ll be a clown when I get grown,’ said Dill. ‘Yes sir, a clown,’ he said. ‘There ain’t one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I’m gonna join the circus and laugh Lees meer…

“She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.”  (Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient)

“Doe uw zin, volg uw hart, doe uw best, zie niet om, maak van uw hart een steen als het nodig is, of een spons in het andere geval, vergeet nooit dat ge maar één keer leeft en dat niemand Lees meer…