I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.
Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.
My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching.
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
Literature is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments.
An unhappy ending makes it literature rather than romantic fiction.
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.
Great abilities produce great vices as well as virtues.
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
The Lord is a great God. The Lord is a great King.
It is your life, accept the challenge:
It is gracious to overlook an offence.
Live to read, read to learn.
Seek protection from the supreme-being.
One who has great faith has great power.
One who has great love has great power.
