A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

Be a lifelong student, read as many books as possible.

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

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.