Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.
Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.
Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.