C.E. Crowder

“Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.”
― James A. Owen, The Barbizon Diaries: A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories

“A book is not supposed to be a mirror. It's supposed to be a door.”
― Fran Lebowitz

“Every man should keep minutes of whatever he reads. Every circumstance of his studies should be recorded; what books he has consulted; how much of them he has read; at what times; how often the same authors; and what opinions he formed of them, at different periods of his life. Such an account would much illustrate the history of his mind.”
― James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman