“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.”

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”

“Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books.”

“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”

“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”

“If out of reading this book you get just one thing—an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle—if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.”

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”

“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”

“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.”