It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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

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.

I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built.

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.

If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free.