It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.

Just as food is fuel for the body, books are fuel for the mind.

I can't think of too many things as exciting as reading a book for the first time!

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

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.