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My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.

The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.

I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on my career as an actor and taking time out for my husband and family help to cushion a lot of the blows.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Books are humanity in print.