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

—Pablo Neruda

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

—Walt Disney

I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve. 

— Montesquieu

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

— C.S. Lewis

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

— Joseph Addison

Children have limited power to shape their own lives, but when they can experiment with possibilities through books, their optimism can be recharged and kept alive.

— Morris Gleitzman

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

― Oscar Wilde

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

Reading with children makes an intimate, human connection that teaches that child what it means to be alive as one of many beings on the planet. 

—Anna Dewdney

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. 

—Ray Bradbury

All good books have one thing in common—they are truer than if they had really happened. 

—Ernest Hemingway

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

—Walt Disney

There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all. 

—Jackie Kennedy

I you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. 

—Albert Einstein

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while. 

—Malorie Blackman

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero