C.E. Crowder

“Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.”
― James A. Owen, The Barbizon Diaries: A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“Every man should keep minutes of whatever he reads. Every circumstance of his studies should be recorded; what books he has consulted; how much of them he has read; at what times; how often the same authors; and what opinions he formed of them, at different periods of his life. Such an account would much illustrate the history of his mind.”
― James Boswell, Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

“I told myself that as long as there were books I could be sure of being happy.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter