Christopher Morley

"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."

"Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs."

"When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book."

"There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way."

"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."

"The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win."

"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."

"That's what this country needs -- more books!"

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."