Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.

When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

In the humble environs of my boyhood, books were a scarce commodity. By local standards, however, the personal library of STR Manickam, a former 'revolutionary' or militant nationalist, was sizeable. He encouraged me to read all I could and I often visited his home to borrow books.

Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed.