I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
No one can take it away from you.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.
Tis the good reader that makes the good 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.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.
Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.
Richer than I you can never be, I had a mother who read to me.
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.
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