Books Quote by Wayne Dyer

I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

— George W. Crane

“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was an author…

— Martha Cooley

Chrysostom, I remember, mentions a twofold book of God: the book of the creatures, and the book of the scriptures. God, having taught us…

— Cotton Mather

I never read a self-help book except for the Bible.

— Jon Heder

My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a…

— Benjamin Franklin

“The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious…

— Graham Greene

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

— Francine Pascal

As the years go by, I find myself experiencing God's extraordinary concern, consideration, healing, and what I call in my books, the divine therapy.

— Thomas Keating

It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less than a…

— Richard Wright

My mother's influence in molding my character was conspicuous. She forced me to learn daily long chapters of the Bible by heart. To that…

— John Ruskin

“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding and thus…

— B.S. Murthy

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own…

— Charlie Chaplin