The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

The dictionary also invites a playful reading. It challenges anyone to sit down with it in an idle moment. There are worse ways to kill time.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.