"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." – Joseph Addison
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies." – George R.R. Martin
"Books are a uniquely portable magic." – Stephen King
"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." – Frederick Douglass
"The only thing you absolutely have to know is the location of the library." – Albert Einstein
"So many books, so little time." – Frank Zappa
"Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are." – Mason Cooley
"Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination." – Sidney Sheldon
"The more that you read, the more things you will know." – Dr. Seuss
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends." – Charles W. Eliot
"You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book!" – Dr. Seuss
"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating." – Kofi Annan
"Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary." – Jim Rohn
"A book is a dream that you hold in your hands." – Neil Gaiman
"Children are made readers on the laps of their parents." – Emilie Buchwald
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." – Cicero
"There is no friend as loyal as a book." – Ernest Hemingway
"Books wash away from the soul the dust of everyday life." – Unknown
"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." – Margaret Fuller
"Reading brings us unknown friends." – Honoré de Balzac
"Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible." – Barack Obama
"Books open windows to the world and have the power to transform lives." – Ralph Lauren
"The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds." – Descartes
"Libraries were full of ideas – perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons." – Sarah J. Maas
"The only thing that you absolutely have to know is how to read." – Albert Einstein
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you." – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Reading is not optional." – Walter Dean Myers
"I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book." – J.K. Rowling
"Books are a uniquely portable magic." – Stephen King
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all." – Henry David Thoreau
"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island." – Walt Disney
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." – Oscar Wilde
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." – Victor Hugo
"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life.’" – Helen Exley
"Reading one book is like eating one potato chip." – Diane Duane
"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own." – William Hazlitt
"Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope." – Kofi Annan
"Reading is dreaming with open eyes." – Anissa Trisdianty
"We read to know we're not alone." – William Nicholson
"Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks." – Dr. Seuss
"A well-read person is a dangerous creature." – Lisa Kleypas
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?" – Henry Ward Beecher
"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time." – E.P. Whipple
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." – John Locke
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world." – Henry David Thoreau
"Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." – Anne Herbert
"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." – Mark Twain
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." – Haruki Murakami
"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all." – Abraham Lincoln
"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination and the journey. They are home." – Anna Quindlen