Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.

---

I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.

---

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

---

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

---

A good would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

---

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than afoolcanlearn from a wise answer. -Bruce Lee

---

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

---

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

---

I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.

---

Books are mirrors: You only see in them what you already have inside you.

---