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We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.

Today our books are numberless, and one man cannot master them in a lifetime. Now that the sea-waves are dashing upon our shores, unless we keep pace with the times and acquire Western learning, we shall be left in the lurch.

We're put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

Travel teaches as much as books.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

There's books that are about places we will never go, and then there's books that inspire us to go.

Books should be right up there with exercise and diet as something that don't just entertain us but heal us. They tell us we are not alone and fix the pieces of us that can be shattered by reality. They are teachers, and they are friends, and we should never contemplate a world - or a life - without them.