Juan DeLeon

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It was the French of the Normans that, grafting itself onto the barbaric Saxon tongue, gave it its most magnificent blossoming. And, in these new countries, where both English and French are intertwined again, it is as if English were bathing itself in the fountain of its own youth, and as if French were remembering the buried treasures it had thought forgotten.”
― Jean-Christophe Valtat, Luminous Chaos

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch