Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.