What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.

'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.'

The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.

Everyone has been remarkably influenced by a book, or books. In my case it was a book on cartoon animation. I discovered it in the Kansas City Library at the t…