"When the kingdom of words ends, the kingdom of silence begins." ~~ Avraham Chen
"I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. " ~~ Elie Wiesel
"Where can you find a better place to spend the dangerous age than in literature?" ~~ Theodore Herzl
"There can be no creative national literature without ancient traditions. " ~~ Yosef Chaim Brenner
"Books are pouches of wisdom embroidered with pearly words." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"The more books, the more wisdom. " ~~ Omer Hashikhcha
"Through legend one may penetrate the Jewish nation’s living home and behold its inward parts. " ~~ Chaim Nachman Bialik
"If you are a man of the sword, you can’t claim to be a man of the book; and if you are a man of the book, you will not be a man of the sword." ~~ Talmud, Avodah Zarah 17b
"I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book. " ~~ Groucho Marx
"A book gives knowledge, but it is life that gives understanding." ~~ Traditional Proverb
"Our Holy Scriptures are not only a religious book, but the foundation of our literature, our language and our history, and the sole source of them." ~~ Rav Tza’ir
"Books are meant not to be shelved, but to be studied." ~~ Sefer Chassidim