I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

I don't have a photograph. I'd give you my footprints, but they're upstairs in my socks.

To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx.

My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.

'Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can; I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.'

Reading, in contrast to sitting before the screen, is not a purely passive exercise. The child, particularly one who reads a book dealing with real life, has n…

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.