Pastoral Resources

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

The directors thought, They understand nothing in the real economy, in real life. They read some stupid books, and they came from the moon to the earth, and maybe in one month they will disappear.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.

I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.