When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

When you give someone a book, you don’t give him just paper, ink, and glue. You give him the possibility of a whole new life.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.