I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me, thank God that I can read, that I have truly touched the minds of other men.

Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Them when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.

من لا يريد القراءة ليس بأفضل ممن لا يستطيع القراءة

When you learn to read you will be born again...and you will never be quite so alone again.

Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.

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